The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel
Part of Cambridge Introductions to Literature
- Author: Marina MacKay, Washington University, St Louis
- Date Published: November 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521713344
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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: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, plots, places, and politics. Between the main chapters are longer readings of individual works, from Don Quixote to Midnight's Children. A glossary of key terms and a guide to further reading are included, making this an ideal accompaniment to introductory courses on the novel.
Read more- Written without specialist jargon for undergraduates beginning to study literature
- Chapters clearly organised by topic, with sample readings of important novels
- Includes glossary and guide to further reading
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- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521713344
- length: 230 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
About this book
1. Why the novel matters
Interchapter: Don Quixote
2. Origins of the novel
Interchapter: Tristram Shandy
3. Narrating the novel
Interchapter: Justified Sinner
4. Character and the novel
Interchapter: The Scarlet Letter
5. Plotting the novel
Interchapter: Madame Bovary
6. Setting the novel
Interchapter: Bleak House
7. Time and history
Interchapter: To the Lighthouse
8. Genre and subgenre
Interchapter: The Ministry of Fear
9. Novel and anti-novel
Interchapter: The Crying of Lot 49
10. Novel, nation, community
Interchapter: Midnight's Children
11. Concluding
Glossary
Further reading.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- African Literature
- Graduate SEminar in Comparative Revolutions
- Introduction to Fiction
- Introduction to the Novel
- Literary Masterpieces
- Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature
- Studies in Genre, Narrative
- Studies in the Novel (British)
- The British Novel
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