The literary channel : the inter-national invention of the novel / edited by Margaret Cohen and Carolyn Dever.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Margaret, 1958-

Dever, Carolyn.

Series:

Translation/transnation.

Translation/transnation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Invention (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers, critics, and readers enthusiastically exchanging works, codes, and theories of the novel. Building on both nationally based literary history and comparatist work on poetics, this book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. In the Channel zone, the novel developed through interactions among texts, readers, writers, and translators that inextricably linked national literary cultures. It served as a forum to promote and critique nationalist clichés, whether from the standpoint of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, the insurgent nationalism of colonized spaces, or the non-nationalized culture of consumption. In the process, the Channel zone promoted codes that became the genre's hallmarks, including the sentimental poetics that would shape fiction through the nineteenth century. Uniting leading critics who bridge literary history and theory, The Literary Channel will appeal to all readers attentive to the future of literary studies, as well as those interested in the novel's development, British and French cultural history, and extra-national patterns of cultural exchange. Contributors include April Alliston, Emily Apter, Margaret Cohen, Joan DeJean, Carolyn Dever, Lynn Festa, Françoise Lionnet, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Sharon Marcus, Richard Maxwell, and Mary Helen McMurran.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction / Cohen, Margaret / Dever, Carolyn

PART I. The Novel without Borders

CHAPTER ONE. Transnationalism and the Origins of the (French?) Novel / Dejean, Joan

CHAPTER TWO. National or Transnational? The Eighteenth-Century Novel / Mcmurran, Mary Helen

CHAPTER THREE. Sentimental Bonds and Revolutionary Characters: Richardson's Pamela in England and France / Festa, Lynn

CHAPTER FOUR. Sentimental Communities / Cohen, Margaret

CHAPTER FIVE. Transnational Sympathies, Imaginary Communities / Alliston, April

PART II. Imagining the "Othered" Nation

CHAPTER SIX. Phantom States: Cleveland, The Recess, and the Origins of Historical Fiction / Maxwell, Richard

CHAPTER SEVEN. Gender, Empire, and Epistolarity: From Jane Austen's Mansfield Park to Marie-The´ re` se Humbert's La Montagne des Signaux / Lionnet, Françoise

CHAPTER EIGHT. The (Dis)locations of Romantic Nationalism: Shelley, Stae¨ l, and the Home-Schooling of Monsters / Lynch, Deidre Shauna

CHAPTER NINE. "An Occult and Immoral Tyranny": The Novel, the Police, and the Agent Provocateur / Dever, Carolyn

CHAPTER TEN. Comparative Sapphism / Marcus, Sharon

AFTERWORD. From Literary Channel to Narrative Chunnel / Apter, Emily

Selected Bibliography

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612696060

9781282696068

1282696068

9781400829514

1400829518

OCLC:

593215880