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The Novel

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...

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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..

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  1. 01The Novel.
  2. 02A first word What we mean by the novel.
  3. 03Chapter I What counts as a novel.
  4. 04Chapter II Before there were novels.
  5. 05Chapter III Murasaki's Genji.
  6. 06Chapter IV Cervantes & the modern novel.
  7. 07Chapter V The English eighteenth century.
  8. 08Chapter VI Austen and the inward turn.
  9. 09Chapter VII The sisters at Haworth.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Dickens, in numbers.
  11. 11Chapter IX Middlemarch and after.
  12. 12Chapter X Flaubert and the perfect sentence.
  13. 13Chapter XI Tolstoy.
  14. 14Chapter XII Dostoevsky.
  15. 15Chapter XIII The American century begins.
  16. 16Chapter XIV James and the novel of consciousness.
  17. 17Chapter XV The modernist break.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Kafka.
  19. 19Chapter XVII Hemingway · Fitzgerald · Faulkner.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, Atwood.
  21. 21Chapter XIX The Latin American Boom.
  22. 22Chapter XX The American postmodern.
  23. 23Chapter XXI The translated novel.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Form and chapter.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Voice and narrator.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Character, plot, setting, time.
  27. 27Chapter XXV The canon question.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Where the novel is now.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Thirty novels.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Where to go next.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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