Before Fiction : The Ancien Régime of the Novel.
Paige, Nicholas D.
Before Fiction : The Ancien Régime of the Novel. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (300 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel -- Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess -- Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 -- Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind -- Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment -- Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality -- Chapter 6. Beyond Belief -- Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.
9780812205107
French fiction-17th century-Themes, motives.
French fiction-18th century-Themes, motives.
English fiction-Early modern, 1500-1700-Themes, motives.
English fiction-18th century-Themes, motives.
Fiction-Technique.
Electronic books.
PQ645 -- .P35 2011eb
843/.409
Before Fiction : The Ancien Régime of the Novel. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (300 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel -- Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess -- Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 -- Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind -- Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment -- Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality -- Chapter 6. Beyond Belief -- Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.
9780812205107
French fiction-17th century-Themes, motives.
French fiction-18th century-Themes, motives.
English fiction-Early modern, 1500-1700-Themes, motives.
English fiction-18th century-Themes, motives.
Fiction-Technique.
Electronic books.
PQ645 -- .P35 2011eb
843/.409