Technologies of the Novel

Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems

AvNicholas D. Paige

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Based on a systematic sampling of nearly 2000 French and English novels from 1601 to 1830, this book's foremost aim is to ask precisely how the novel evolved. Instead of simply 'rising', as scholars have been saying for some sixty years, the novel is in fact a system in constant flux, made up of artifacts - formally distinct novel types - that themselves rise, only to inevitably fall. Nicholas D. Paige argues that these artifacts are technologies, each with traceable origins, each needing time for adoption (at the expense of already developed technologies) and also for abandonment. Like technological waves in more physical domains, the rises and falls of novelistic technologies don't happen automatically: writers invent and adopt literary artifacts for many diverse reasons. However, looking not at individual works but at the novel as a patterned system provides a startlingly persuasive new way of understanding the history and evolution of artforms.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-19
Mått:175 x 250 x 20 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108835503

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Nicholas D. Paige, Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (2011), awarded the 2013 ASECS Gottschalk prize, and Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity (2001). Technologies of the Novel was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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'… one can only be impressed with this highly original, thorough, and thought-provoking book. Anyone interested either in the history of the novel (whether French or not), or in current methods of Computational Literary Studies, should be reading Technologies of the Novel.' Christof Schöch, H-France

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I; 1. Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel; Part II; 3. Novel v. Romance I: Heliodorian Insetting; 4. Novel v. Romance II: The Fortunes of a Subtitle; 5. Novel v. Romance III: Measuring romans and Nouvelles; 6. Documenticity I: Memoirs (and Other First Persons); 7. Documenticity II: The Two Rises of the Epistolary Novel; 8. A 'New' Third-Person Novel; 9. The Novel System in England, 1701-1810; Part III; 10. The Evolution of Literary Technologies; Bibliography; Index.