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The Lives of the Novel : A History /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pavel, Thomas G., 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Fiction > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Strong souls, degrees of perfection
  • Helpless souls, tricksters, and rascalsod
  • The center of action: elegiac stories and novellas
  • An isolated realm, hesitant lovers: the pastoral
  • Don Quixote and the history of the novel
  • The new idealism
  • Resistance to new idealism
  • Love: romantic and impossible
  • Novels and society
  • From sensitive hearts to enigmatic psyches
  • Syntheses, high points
  • Loners in a strange world.