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The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
Steven Moore
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Description for The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
Paperback. A history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's popular and innovative literary form. It attempts to tell the complete story of our popular literary form. It celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between the premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1020. Beginnings to 1600. 704 pages. A history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's popular and innovative literary form. It attempts to tell the complete story of our popular literary form. It celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between the premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 45. Weight: 1020.
This title tells a comprehensive history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's most popular and innovative literary form. Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, "The Novel: An Alternative History" is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel, beginning ... Read more
This title tells a comprehensive history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's most popular and innovative literary form. Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, "The Novel: An Alternative History" is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel, beginning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441145475
SKU
V9781441145475
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About Steven Moore
Steven Moore (Ph.D. Rutgers, 1988) is the author of several books and essays on modern literature. From 1988 to 1996 he was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction/Dalkey Archive Press, and for decades he has reviewed books for a variety of journals and newspapers, principally The Washington Post. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Reviews for The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
"Steven Moore's recent encyclopedic study, The Novel: An Alternative History...dramatically amplifies our understanding of what the novel can and cannot do, and highlights living currents that sprang into existence 40 centuries ago and continue to flow into the contemporary novel." (Stephen Burn, The New York Times Book Review)"