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Without the novel : romance and the history of prose fiction / Scott Black.
Loaned to Another Library PN3340 .B53 2019
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Scott, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Romances--History and criticism.
- Romances.
- Romance fiction--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction.
- Adventure stories--History and criticism.
- Adventure stories.
- Reality in literature.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Romance-language fiction.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 208 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Romance and the history of prose fiction
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This book offers a new literary history of prose fiction organized by the recurrences of romance and informed by the puzzles, provocations, and pleasures of reading that define the genre." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Romance and the Turbulence of Literary History
- 1. Reading Mistakes in Heliodorus
- 2. The Origins of Romance
- 3. Romance Redivivus
- 4. The Adventures of Love in Tom Jones
- 5. Tristram Shandy's Strange Loops of Reading
- 6. Stasis and Static in The Wanderer
- Coda: Reading Romance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813942841
- 0813942845
- 9780813942858
- 0813942853
- OCLC:
- 1091694460
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