{"product_id":"novel-characters-isbn-9781405159517","title":"Novel Characters","description":"\u003ci\u003eNovel Characters\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influential international novels of the present day   \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn original study which offers a unique approach to thinking about and discussing character\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMakes extensive reference to both traditional and more recent and specialized academic studies of the novel\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a critical vocabulary for understanding how the novelistic conception of character has changed over time.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines a broad range of novels, cultures, and periods\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePromotes discussion of how different cultures and times think about human identity, and how the concept of what a character is has changed over time\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction: Novel Characters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere Do the Novel's Characters Come From?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurprising Characters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNovel Types.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Wholes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Originals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuixote: Or the Originality of Imitators.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginal Claims and Final Reckonings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe English Original.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConversations with an Original.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd Now for Our Heroines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Individuals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersuasions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen of Character.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAristocrats and Commoners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Incomparables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII Fractions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Selves\/Identities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMe and Mine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisualizing the Self.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll in All.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Final Me.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII Compounds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Native Cosmopolitans.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative Cosmopolitans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStereotypes and Mimic Men.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Man and the Native Cosmopolitan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMaria DiBattista\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University; she has written extensively on modern literature, popular and pulp fiction, and film. Her books include \u003ci\u003eFirst Love: The Affections of Modern Fiction (1991)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFast Talking Dames\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), and \u003ci\u003eImagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).  What makes novelistic characters unique? How do novelistic characters reflect or prefigure different ideas of human possibilities? Why and how has the concept of novelistic character changed over time? These are some the questions addressed in \u003ci\u003eNovel Characters\u003c\/i\u003e, an ambitious work that aims to reinstate character to its proper and central place in the art of fiction. \u003ci\u003eNovel Characters\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the novel is the literary form best suited to create characters of real, often troubling distinction, and that indeed it has a generic disposition, amounting to an obligation, to do so. DiBattista proposes a way of understanding what is distinctive about novelistic character as well as offering a discussion of how different cultures and times think about human identity.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNovel Characters\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the \"birth of the novel\" in \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e through the works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and concludes by considering today's most influential international fiction. It simultaneously develops a lexicon of terms to describe the 'development' and trace the moral genealogy of novelistic characters through various literary periods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989700395237,"sku":"NP9781405159517","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405159517.jpg?v=1761785159","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/novel-characters-isbn-9781405159517","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}