A Companion to the English Novel

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day.

• Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches
• Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel
• Considers the advancement of various literary forms - including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film
• Includes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction
• Features contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics
• Includes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research

Auteur

Stephen Arata is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. In addition to Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1996) and many essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, he is a General Editor of the 38-volume New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). Madigan Haley holds a PhD from the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where he is a Postdoctoral Preceptor. A comparatist with a special focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century anglophone literature, he has published on the global novel in The Minnesota Review and in Novel: A Forum on Fiction. His current book project explores how contemporary world literature gives form to an ethical notion of the global. J. Paul Hunter is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago and Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. His publications include Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction (1990), winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Jennifer Wicke, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading (1988) and the co-editor of Feminism and Postmodernism (1994). She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature from a global anglophone perspective.

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A COMPANION TO THE ENGLISH NOVEL "The Companion is more than a useful and up-to-date reference work. It's a genuinely exciting collection of brand new essays by some of the most important living scholars of the English novel. There is no other single volume from which one can learn so much on the subject." James English, University of Pennsylvania "The combined expertise of a team of able contributors and the ingenious planning that allows the English novel to be approached from a variety of perspectives make this a distinctive, and distinctly useful, volume, whether it is dipped into or read right through." Derek Attridge, University of York A Companion to the English Novel presents a collection of authoritative essays that represent the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction while chronicling its development in Britain from the early eighteenth century to the present day, including the emergence of a global anglophone fiction. Featuring contributions from renowned experts and emerging scholars, readings offer cutting-edge critical analyses of all aspects of the English novel. Initial essays explore the history of the English novel tradition, followed by an examination of genres such as realism, romance, Gothic, and experimental fiction, as well as of the relation between novels and film. Subsequent chapters explore formal features of the novel such as narration, structure, character, and affect. Others examine shifts in critical reception of the English novel, analyze the geographies of contemporary English fiction, and look to the future. Reflecting the most up-to-date scholarship in a field that has undergone dramatic changes in recent times, A Companion to the English Novel is an indispensable resource, adding to our current understanding of the origins and evolution of the rich literary tradition of fictional works produced in Great Britain over the past two centuries.

Contenu

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface xiii

Part I The Novel and Its Histories 1

1 The 1740s 3
Patricia Meyer Spacks

2 The 1790s 18
Lynn Festa

3 The 1850s 34
Ivan Kreilkamp

4 The Long 1920s 49
Jennifer Wicke

5 The 2000s 71
Ashley Dawson

Part II The Novel and Its Genres 87

6 Realism and the Eighteenth Century Novel 89
John Richetti

7 Romance 103
Laurie Langbauer

8 Gothic 117
John Paul Riquelme

9 Popular and Mass Market Fiction 132
Janice Carlisle

10 Experimental Fictions 144
Mark Blackwell

11 The Novel into Film 159
Jonathan Freedman

Part III The Novel in Pieces 175

12 Some Versions of Narration 177
Alison Booth

13 Some Versions of Form 192
Stephen Arata

14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors 209
Deidre Lynch

15 Affect in the English Novel 225
Nicholas Daly

Part IV The Novel in Theory 239

16 The Novel in Theory before 1900 241
James Eli Adams

17 The Novel in Theory, 1900-1965 256
Chris Baldick

18 The Novel in Theory after 1965 271
Madigan Haley

Part V The Novel in Circulation 289

19 Making a Living as an Author 291
Deirdre David

20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction 306
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse

21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups 321
Andrew Elfenbein

Part VI Geographies of the Novel 339

22 London 341
Cynthia Wall

23 The Provincial Novel 360
John Plotz

24 Intranationalisms 373
James Buzard

25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic 387
Lauren M. E. Goodlad

Part VII The Novel, Public and Private 407

26 The Novel and the Everyday 409
Kate Flint

27 The Public Sphere 426
John Marx

28 The Novel and the Nation 441
Christopher GoGwilt

29 World English/World Literature 456
Jonathan Arac

Index 471