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Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

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Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
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â€œBy taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary termsâ€•ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, â€˜wonderâ€™ narrativesâ€•Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities.â€ â€•Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia
What did people read before there were novels? Not necessarily just other â€œliteraryâ€ works, according to this fascinating study of the beginnings of the English novel. To understand the origins of the novel as a species and to read individual novels well, we must know several pasts and traditionsâ€•even non-fictional and non-narrative traditions, even non-â€œartisticâ€ and non-written pastsâ€•that at first might seem far removed from the pleasures readers find in modern novels.

Country	USA
Author	J. Paul Hunter
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780393308617
ISBN	0393308618
Label	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
MPN	black & white illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	448
PartNumber	black & white illustrations
PublicationDate	1992-06-17
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Studio	W. W. Norton & Company
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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