The novel : a biography / Michael Schmidt.

By:

Schmidt, Michael, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Description: xi, 1172 pages ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674724730

Subject(s):

Fiction -- History and criticism

DDC classification:

809.3 23 SCH

LOC classification:

PN3491 .S36 2014

Summary: The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally diverse, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa, influenced by great novelists working in other languages, and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt quotes from "artist practitioners," from letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists, and draws on their biographies, to invite us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggest how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Books	Main Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	809.3 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		MUL21090045

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Includes index.

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally diverse, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa, influenced by great novelists working in other languages, and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt quotes from "artist practitioners," from letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists, and draws on their biographies, to invite us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggest how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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