Author: Francis Marion CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Complete Works of F. Marion Crawford
Author: Francis Marion CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel
Author: Troy J. BassettPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030319261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.
A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature
Author: Alfred CotgreavePublisher: London : E. Stock
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Book Buyer
Author: The Literary World
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: The Odd Volume
Author: The Novel, Volume 1
Author: Franco MorettiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
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