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Author:
Black, Scott, 1964- author.
Title:
Without the novel : romance and the history of prose fiction / Scott Black.
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
x, 208 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Fiction--History and criticism.
Romances--History and criticism.
Romance fiction--History and criticism.
Adventure stories--History and criticism.
Reality in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Romance and the Turbulence of Literary History -- 1. Reading Mistakes in Heliodorus -- 2. The Origins of Romance -- 3. Romance Redivivus -- 4. The Adventures of Love in Tom Jones -- 5. Tristram Shandy's Strange Loops of Reading -- 6. Stasis and Static in The Wanderer -- Coda: Reading Romance.
Summary:
"This book offers a new literary history of prose fiction organized by the recurrences of romance and informed by the puzzles, provocations, and pleasures of reading that define the genre." -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780813942858
0813942853
0813942845
9780813942841
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1091694460
LCCN:
2019006671
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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