Technologies of the Novel - Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems

Based on a systematic sampling of French and English novels over more than two centuries, this book sets aside the familiar histories of the genre's so-called 'rise', proposing that the novel is a system whose constant yet patterned flux must be understood in the context of technological evolution more generally.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I; 1. Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel; Part II; 3. Novel v. Romance I: Heliodorian Insetting; 4. Novel v. Romance II: The Fortunes of a Subtitle; 5. Novel v. Romance III: Measuring romans and Nouvelles; 6. Documenticity I: Memoirs (and Other First Persons); 7. Documenticity II: The Two Rises of the Epistolary Novel; 8. A 'New' Third-Person Novel; 9. The Novel System in England, 1701-1810; Part III; 10. The Evolution of Literary Technologies; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nicholas D. Paige, Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (2011), awarded the 2013 ASECS Gottschalk prize, and Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity (2001). Technologies of the Novel was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Summary

Based on a systematic sampling of French and English novels over more than two centuries, this book sets aside the familiar histories of the genre's so-called 'rise', proposing that the novel is a system whose constant yet patterned flux must be understood in the context of technological evolution more generally.

Foreword

The first quantitative history of the novel's evolution, written with the tools and perspectives provided by the digital humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas D. Paige, Nicholas D. (University of California Paige, Paige Nicholas D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108812849
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81284-9
• No. of pages: 287
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism, Educational: English Literature, C 1700 To C 1800, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies