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Without the novel : romance and the history of prose fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Scott, 1964- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.