Deidre Lynch is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. William B. Warner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

“Demonstrating remarkable diversity, Cultural Institutions of the Novel calls for nothing short of a radical change in the basis for defining fiction from ontology to function. It provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the questions on which the next generation of scholars of the novel is setting to work.”-Nancy Armstrong, Brown University “I have been provoked to fundamentals by the challenge of this book, and so will other readers.”-Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh

• Introduction: The Transport of the Novel / Deidre Lynch and William B.Warner 1Prologue: Why the Story of the Origin of the (English) Novel Is an American Romance (If Not the Great American Novel) / Homer Brown 11I. The Contact Zone 451. Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel / Michelle Burnham 472. The Maori House of Fiction / Bridget Orr 733. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Asian American "Novels" and the Question of History / Lisa Lowe 964. The Rise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison / Dane Johnson 129II. (Trans)National Canons 1575. At Home with Jane Austen / Deidre Lynch 1596. The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the narratives of Canadian Literature / Katie Trumpener 1937. Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro / James A. Fujii 2228. The Joys of Daughterhood: Gender, Nationalism, and the Making of Literary Tradition(s) / Susan Z. Andrade 249III. The Romance of Consumption 2779. Formulating Fiction: Romancing the General Reader in Early Modern Britain / William B. Warner 27910. "To Love a Murderer" - Fantasy, Sexuality, and the Political Novel: The Case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mucke 30611. The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and the Politics of Adultery in Nineteenth-Century France / Jann Matlock 33512. Romances for "Big and Little Boys": The U.S. Romantic Revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener 36913. Pas Americans: The Case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant 399Epilogue: The Rise of Novelism / Clifford Siskin 423Works Cited 441Index 477Contributors 487

Deidre Lynch is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. William B. Warner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

“Demonstrating remarkable diversity, Cultural Institutions of the Novel calls for nothing short of a radical change in the basis for defining fiction from ontology to function. It provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the questions on which the next generation of scholars of the novel is setting to work.”-Nancy Armstrong, Brown University “I have been provoked to fundamentals by the challenge of this book, and so will other readers.”-Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh

• Introduction: The Transport of the Novel / Deidre Lynch and William B.Warner 1Prologue: Why the Story of the Origin of the (English) Novel Is an American Romance (If Not the Great American Novel) / Homer Brown 11I. The Contact Zone 451. Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel / Michelle Burnham 472. The Maori House of Fiction / Bridget Orr 733. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Asian American "Novels" and the Question of History / Lisa Lowe 964. The Rise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison / Dane Johnson 129II. (Trans)National Canons 1575. At Home with Jane Austen / Deidre Lynch 1596. The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the narratives of Canadian Literature / Katie Trumpener 1937. Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro / James A. Fujii 2228. The Joys of Daughterhood: Gender, Nationalism, and the Making of Literary Tradition(s) / Susan Z. Andrade 249III. The Romance of Consumption 2779. Formulating Fiction: Romancing the General Reader in Early Modern Britain / William B. Warner 27910. "To Love a Murderer" - Fantasy, Sexuality, and the Political Novel: The Case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mucke 30611. The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and the Politics of Adultery in Nineteenth-Century France / Jann Matlock 33512. Romances for "Big and Little Boys": The U.S. Romantic Revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener 36913. Pas Americans: The Case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant 399Epilogue: The Rise of Novelism / Clifford Siskin 423Works Cited 441Index 477Contributors 487

Deidre Lynch is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. William B. Warner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

“Demonstrating remarkable diversity, Cultural Institutions of the Novel calls for nothing short of a radical change in the basis for defining fiction from ontology to function. It provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the questions on which the next generation of scholars of the novel is setting to work.”-Nancy Armstrong, Brown University “I have been provoked to fundamentals by the challenge of this book, and so will other readers.”-Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh

• Introduction: The Transport of the Novel / Deidre Lynch and William B.Warner 1Prologue: Why the Story of the Origin of the (English) Novel Is an American Romance (If Not the Great American Novel) / Homer Brown 11I. The Contact Zone 451. Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel / Michelle Burnham 472. The Maori House of Fiction / Bridget Orr 733. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Asian American "Novels" and the Question of History / Lisa Lowe 964. The Rise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison / Dane Johnson 129II. (Trans)National Canons 1575. At Home with Jane Austen / Deidre Lynch 1596. The Abbotsford Guide to India: Romantic Fictions of Empire and the narratives of Canadian Literature / Katie Trumpener 1937. Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro / James A. Fujii 2228. The Joys of Daughterhood: Gender, Nationalism, and the Making of Literary Tradition(s) / Susan Z. Andrade 249III. The Romance of Consumption 2779. Formulating Fiction: Romancing the General Reader in Early Modern Britain / William B. Warner 27910. "To Love a Murderer" - Fantasy, Sexuality, and the Political Novel: The Case of Caleb Williams / Dorothea von Mucke 30611. The Limits of Reformism: The Novel, Censorship, and the Politics of Adultery in Nineteenth-Century France / Jann Matlock 33512. Romances for "Big and Little Boys": The U.S. Romantic Revival of the 1890s and James's The Turn of the Screw / Nancy Glazener 36913. Pas Americans: The Case of Show Boat / Lauren Berlant 399Epilogue: The Rise of Novelism / Clifford Siskin 423Works Cited 441Index 477Contributors 487