Agent provocateur
Ann Radcliffe
Author
Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons)
Benedict Anderson
Capital control
Career
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Catherine Earnshaw
Clara Reeve
Cosmopolitanism
Current account
Determination
Economy
English novel
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Essay
Exchange rate
Faithfulness
Family resemblance
Fiction
French literature
Genre
Historical fiction
History painting
Homosexuality
Household
Ibid (short story)
Imperialism
Interest rate
International Publishers
Investment
La Fille aux yeux d'or
Lesbian
Leslie Stephen
Literature
Marriage of convenience
Mary Shelley
Memoir
Mikhail Bakhtin
Modernity
Mr.
Mrs.
Narration
Narrative
Nation state
Nationality
Novel
Novelist
Picaresque novel
Poetry
Prediction
Private citizen
Public sphere
Romanticism
Routledge
Saving
Sensibility
Sentimental Education
Sentimental novel
Sentimentality
Sexual inversion (sexology)
Stanford University Press
State University of New York Press
Sympathy
Technology
The Last Man
The Other Hand
The Romance of the Forest
Tobias Smollett
Transnationalism
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691050027
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers, critics, and readers enthusiastically exchanging works, codes, and theories of the novel. Building on both nationally based literary history and comparatist work on poetics, this book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. In the Channel zone, the novel developed through interactions among texts, readers, writers, and translators that inextricably linked national literary cultures. It served as a forum to promote and critique nationalist cliches, whether from the standpoint of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, the insurgent nationalism of colonized spaces, or the non-nationalized culture of consumption. In the process, the Channel zone promoted codes that became the genre's hallmarks, including the sentimental poetics that would shape fiction through the nineteenth century.
Uniting leading critics who bridge literary history and theory, The Literary Channel will appeal to all readers attentive to the future of literary studies, as well as those interested in the novel's development, British and French cultural history, and extra-national patterns of cultural exchange. Contributors include April Alliston, Emily Apter, Margaret Cohen, Joan DeJean, Carolyn Dever, Lynn Festa, Francoise Lionnet, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Sharon Marcus, Richard Maxwell, and Mary Helen McMurran.
Margaret Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University and the author of The Sentimental Education of the Novel (see page 58) and Profane Illumination. Carolyn Dever is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of Feminism, In Theory and Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud.
