Novel Horizons : The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the transcription of texts -- Introduction: making novel readers -- Part I The rise of the novel as genre -- 1 The novel and its critics -- 2 The temporality of genre -- Antiquity: genre theory versus literary practice -- The early modern age -- Early twentieth century to (post-)structuralism -- Reader-response theories -- Bakhtin, Derrida, and the temporality of generic archives -- Part II Paratexts: the genesis of genre -- Introduction -- 3 Seventeenth-century writing: shifting forms -- 4 Paratext and drama -- 5 Paratext and prose -- Dedicated readers -- Deferred judgement -- Beyond reality -- Embodied morality -- Paratextual limits and genre boundaries -- Part III The Restoration novel -- Introduction -- 6 Narrating, telling, and speaking -- 7 Types, characters, individuals -- 8 Truth and fiction: reality and the page -- Conclusion: reading a genre into being -- Endnotes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Part II -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Part III -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- primary sources -- Anthologies -- Serialised Publications -- Anonymous Works -- Early Modern Works -- critical sources -- Index.
Monograph on the history of the novel and of creative writing, from the English Restoration in the seventeenth century.