Virginia Krause is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Brown University.

"Rich and masterfully executed, The Early Novel in French proves a strikingly original and deeply significant study." —George Hoffmann, University of Michigan"Taking on a neglected and yet central subject, Krause has produced a lively, clever, and concise work that is much overdue in the field of rise-of-the-novel studies." —Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley

• List of Illustrations Note on Quotations Introduction. The Novel in Sixteenth-Century France Chapter 1. Groundwork: Forms, Chronologies, Technical Underpinnings Chapter 2. The Dido Effect: The Making of Les Angoysses douloureuses Chapter 3. Person-Fictions: Animism in the Early Novel Chapter 4. "Nul autheur fameux": Authorial Genealogies Chapter 5. Immersive Mimesis: Light Reading and the Technologies of AbsorptionCodaAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Virginia Krause is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Brown University.

"Rich and masterfully executed, The Early Novel in French proves a strikingly original and deeply significant study." —George Hoffmann, University of Michigan"Taking on a neglected and yet central subject, Krause has produced a lively, clever, and concise work that is much overdue in the field of rise-of-the-novel studies." —Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley

• List of Illustrations Note on Quotations Introduction. The Novel in Sixteenth-Century France Chapter 1. Groundwork: Forms, Chronologies, Technical Underpinnings Chapter 2. The Dido Effect: The Making of Les Angoysses douloureuses Chapter 3. Person-Fictions: Animism in the Early Novel Chapter 4. "Nul autheur fameux": Authorial Genealogies Chapter 5. Immersive Mimesis: Light Reading and the Technologies of AbsorptionCodaAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Virginia Krause is a professor of French and Francophone studies at Brown University.

"Rich and masterfully executed, The Early Novel in French proves a strikingly original and deeply significant study." —George Hoffmann, University of Michigan"Taking on a neglected and yet central subject, Krause has produced a lively, clever, and concise work that is much overdue in the field of rise-of-the-novel studies." —Nicholas Paige, University of California, Berkeley

• List of Illustrations Note on Quotations Introduction. The Novel in Sixteenth-Century France Chapter 1. Groundwork: Forms, Chronologies, Technical Underpinnings Chapter 2. The Dido Effect: The Making of Les Angoysses douloureuses Chapter 3. Person-Fictions: Animism in the Early Novel Chapter 4. "Nul autheur fameux": Authorial Genealogies Chapter 5. Immersive Mimesis: Light Reading and the Technologies of AbsorptionCodaAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index