About this deck
A novel is a long prose fiction, almost always told in chapters, almost always concerned with the interior life of at least one ordinary person, and almost always reading like one piece of writing rather than a collection. Key sections include: The Novel.; A first word What we mean by the novel.; Chapter I What counts as a novel.; Chapter II Before there were novels.; Chapter III Murasaki's Genji.; Chapter IV Cervantes & the modern novel.; Chapter V The English eighteenth century.; Chapter VI Austen and the inward turn.; Chapter VII The sisters at Haworth.; Chapter VIII Dickens, in numbers..