Novel Stage - Narrative Form From the Restoration to Jane Austen

The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

 

Preface: The Novel Stage                                                                                         

 

Chapter 1: Genre, Media, and the Theory of the Novel                                            

 

Chapter 2: The Reform of the Rake from Rochester to Inchbald                              

 

Chapter 3: Performing Reading in Richardson and Fielding                                       

 

Chapter 4: The Promise of Embarrassment: Frances Burney's Theater of Shame    

 

Chapter 5: Melodrama in Inchbald and Austen                                                         

 

Coda: The Melodramatic Address                                                                             

 

Acknowledgements                                                                                                   

 

Bibliography                                                                                                                    

About the author

MARCIE FRANK is a professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism from Dryden to Manley and How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal, and co-editor with Jonathan Goldberg and Karen Newman of This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature.

Summary

Traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel's narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.

Product details

• Authors: Marcie Frank
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781684481682
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-168-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism