{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-english-novel-isbn-9781119068273","title":"A Companion to the English Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the advancement of various literary forms – including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Novel and Its Histories 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The 1740s 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Meyer Spacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The 1790s 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynn Festa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The 1850s 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvan Kreilkamp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Long 1920s 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Wicke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The 2000s 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAshley Dawson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Novel and Its Genres 87\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Realism and the Eighteenth‐Century Novel 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Richetti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Romance 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurie Langbauer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Gothic 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Paul Riquelme\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Popular and Mass‐Market Fiction 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanice Carlisle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Experimental Fictions 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Blackwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Novel into Film 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Freedman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Novel in Pieces 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Some Versions of Narration 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Booth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Some Versions of Form 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Arata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeidre Lynch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Affect in the English Novel 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Daly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Novel in Theory 239\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Novel in Theory before 1900 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Eli Adams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Novel in Theory, 1900–1965 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Baldick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Novel in Theory after 1965 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadigan Haley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V The Novel in Circulation 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Making a Living as an Author 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeirdre David\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups 321\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Elfenbein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Geographies of the Novel 339\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 London 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCynthia Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Provincial Novel 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Plotz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Intranationalisms 373\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Buzard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic 387\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauren M. E. Goodlad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII The Novel, Public and Private 407\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Novel and the Everyday 409\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Flint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Public Sphere 426\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Marx\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Novel and the Nation 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher GoGwilt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 World English\/World Literature 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Arac\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 471\u003c\/p\u003e \t \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Arata\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. In addition to \u003ci\u003eFictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and many essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, he is a General Editor of the 38-volume \u003ci\u003eNew Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadigan Haley\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Minnesota Review\u003c\/i\u003e and in\u003ci\u003e Novel: A Forum on Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. His current book project explores how contemporary world literature gives form to an ethical notion of the global. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Paul Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBefore Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Wicke,\u003c\/b\u003e Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of \u003ci\u003eAdvertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFeminism and Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature from a global anglophone perspective.  \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO THE ENGLISH NOVEL\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames English,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Attridge,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e University of York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInitial 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, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the English Novel\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988618985701,"sku":"NP9781119068273","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119068273.jpg?v=1761780997","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-the-english-novel-isbn-9781119068273","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}