Remapping the Rise of the European Novel

'After reading this excellent book, scholars will feel that they have considerably broadened their knowledge of European literature.'Philological Quarterly

• List of figures and illustrationsList of tablesAcknowledgementsJenny Mander, IntroductionI. Plus ultra? Time, travel and translationAndrew Hadfield, When was the first English novel and what does it tell us?Margaret A. Doody, The representation of consciousness in the ancient novelDiana de Armas Wilson, Of pilgrims and polyglots: Heliodorus, Cervantes and DefoeB. W. Ife and R. T. C. Goodwin, ‘Many expert narrators’: history and fiction in the Spanish chronicles of the New WorldNandini Das, Feeding an appetite for ‘monstrous newfangledness’: exploration and errancy in Robert Greene’s cony-catching talesII. Bibliometrics, generic identity and translationAngus Martin, Traffic in translations: French fiction and the European novel 1701-1750James Raven, The material contours of the English novel 1750-1830Anne J. Cruz, The pícaro meets Don Quixote: the Spanish picaresque and the origins of the modern novelAlan Paterson, Translation in the formation of genre: Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey testifyTrudi Darby, Translation and transculturation: the 1619 English translation of Persiles y SigismundaIII. Novel and nationKate Williams, Passion in translation: translation and the development of the novel in early-eighteenth-century EnglandNathalie Ferrand, The map of reading in la RomancieAndrew Kahn, The rise of the Russian novel and the problem of romanceMónica Bolufer, Poisonous plants or schools of virtue? The second ‘rise’ of the novel in eighteenth-century SpainAnn Hallamore Caesar, History or prehistory? Recent revisions in the eighteenth-century novel in ItalyRoderick Beaton, The Greek novel and the rise of the European genreIV. Popular pleasuresRos Ballaster, Orienting the ‘English’ novel: the shaping genius of the eastern tale in eighteenth-century BritainLise Andries, Was the novel a popular genre in early modern France?Karen O’Brien, Siblings or rivals: fiction and narrative history in eighteenth-century BritainEric Méchoulan, Civility and pleasure: a few hypotheses on the rise of the novel in the early modern periodJohn Richetti, The sex/gender system and the eighteenth-century English woman’s novelMichael Minden, Elisa oder das Weib wie es sein sollte: two kinds of reading pleasure in the consumption of the eighteenth-century German novelSummariesList of works citedIndex