The Novel - A Biography

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally diverse, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa, influenced by greatnovelists working in other languages, and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt quotes from "artist practitioners," from letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists, and draws on their biographies, to invite us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggest how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English --

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow and a writer in residence at St John’s College, Cambridge. He is founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Schmidt
• Verlag: Belknap press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.05.2014
• EAN: 9780674724730
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72473-0
• Abmessung: 175 mm x 265 mm x 60 mm
• Serie: The Belknap Press
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers