A Companion to the English Novel

Content: Notes on Contributors viii    Preface xiii    Part I The Novel and Its Histories 1    1 The 1740s 3 Patricia Meyer Spacks    2 The 1790s 18 Lynn Festa    3 The 1850s 34 Ivan Kreilkamp    4 The Long 1920s 49 Jennifer Wicke    5 The 2000s 71 Ashley Dawson    Part II The Novel and Its Genres 87    6 Realism and the Eighteenth  ]Century Novel 89 John Richetti    7 Romance 103 Laurie Langbauer    8 Gothic 117 John Paul Riquelme    9 Popular and Mass  ]Market Fiction 132 Janice Carlisle    10 Experimental Fictions 144 Mark Blackwell    11 The Novel into Film 159 Jonathan Freedman    Part III The Novel in Pieces 175    12 Some Versions of Narration 177 Alison Booth    13 Some Versions of Form 192 Stephen Arata    14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors 209 Deidre Lynch    15 Affect in the English Novel 225 Nicholas Daly    Part IV The Novel in Theory 239    16 The Novel in Theory before 1900 241 James Eli Adams    17 The Novel in Theory, 1900   1965 256 Chris Baldick    18 The Novel in Theory After 1965 271 Madigan Haley    Part V The Novel in Circulation 289    19 Making a Living as an Author 291 Deirdre David    20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction 306 Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse    21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups 321 Andrew Elfenbein    Part VI Geographies of the Novel 339    22 London 341 Cynthia Wall    23 The Provincial Novel 360 John Plotz    24 Intranationalisms 373 James Buzard    25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic 387 Lauren M. E. Goodlad    Part VII The Novel, Public and Private 407    26 The Novel and the Everyday 409 Kate Flint    27 The Public Sphere 426 John Marx    28 The Novel and the Nation 441 Christopher GoGwilt    29 World English/World Literature 456 Jonathan Arac    Index 471