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The True Story of the Novel - by Margaret Anne Doody (Paperback)

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  • Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative.
  • About the Author: MARGARET ANNE DOODY is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she is Director of the Comparative Literature Program.
  • 610 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, General

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About the Book



"An erudite, intelligent and imaginative work of literary scholarship. With vivacity, grace, and wit, Doody traces the history (of the novel) from the ancient novels of Apuleium and Heliodorus through the Renaissance fictions of Boccaccio, Cervantes, and Rabelais to the 'official' birth of the novel in 18th-century England".--BOSTON GLOBE. 39 illustrations.



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Twentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as superseding something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical tidiness--but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains, served both to keep the foreign--dark-skinned peoples, strange speakers, Muslims, and others--largely out of literature, and to obscure the diverse nature of the novel itself.

This deeply informed and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually unacknowledged subgenres--new readings of novels like The Pickwick Papers, Puddn'head Wilson, L'Assommoir, Death in Venice, and Beloved are accompanied by insights into Death on the Nile or The Wind in the Willows. Non-Western writers like Chinua Achebe and Witi Ihimaera are also included. In her last section, Doody goes on to show that Chinese and Japanese novels, early and late, bear a strong and not incidental affinity to their Western counterparts. Collectively, these readings offer the basis for a serious reassessment of the history and the nature of the novel.

The True Story of the Novel marks the beginning of the twenty-first century's understanding of fiction and of culture. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in literature.



About the Author



MARGARET ANNE DOODY is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she is Director of the Comparative Literature Program. She is the author of two novels, The Alchemists and Aristotle Detective, as well as other books, including Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (Rutgers University Press, 1988).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.04 Inches (H) x 5.62 Inches (W) x 1.46 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.97 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 610
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Margaret Anne Doody
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 1997
TCIN: 1001840084
UPC: 9780813524535
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-2419
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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