Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
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Author_Michael McKeon
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history of reading
history of the novel
literary history
literary theory
narrative theory
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- ISBN 9780801869952
- Weight: 953g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the considerable response and commentary the book has attracted since its publication by describing dialectical method and by applying it to early modern notions of gender. Challenging prevailing theories that tie the origins of the novel to the ascendancy of "realism" and the "middle class," McKeon argues that this new genre arose in response to the profound instability of literary and social categories. Between 1600 and 1740, momentous changes took place in European attitudes toward truth in narrative and toward virtue in the individual and the social order. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Michael McKeon is a professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University.
