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The Cambridge introduction to the novel /
"Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: whe...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge introductions to literature
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Table of Contents:
- About this book
- Why the novel matters
- Interchapter: Don Quixote
- Origins of the novel
- Interchapter: Tristram Shandy
- Narrating the novel
- Interchapter: Justified Sinner
- Character and the novel
- Interchapter: The Scarlet Letter
- Plotting the novel
- Interchapter: Madame Bovary
- Setting the novel
- Interchapter: Bleak House
- Time and history
- Interchapter: To the Lighthouse
- Genre and subgenre
- Interchapter: The Ministry of Fear
- Novel and anti-novel
- Interchapter: The Crying of Lot 49
- Novel, nation, community
- Interchapter: Midnight's Children.