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 --

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Schmidt
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2014
• EAN: 9780674724730
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72473-0
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 265 mm x 60 mm
• Series: The Belknap Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers