# The Novel

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:36.311Z
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## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

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

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