New Directions in the History of the Novel

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Novel Designs: Manipulating the Page in English Fiction, 1660–1780....Pages 17-49
Textual Instability and the Contemporary Novel: Reading Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing On and Off the Page....Pages 50-62
The Early American Novel in Fragments: Writing and Reading Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States....Pages 63-75
Archive Fever: The Publishers’ Archive and the History of the Novel....Pages 76-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Memory, Interiority and Historicity: Some Factors in the Early Novel....Pages 91-102
A Gothic History of the British Novel....Pages 103-120
Critical Histories of Omniscience....Pages 121-133
The ‘power of the written word’: Literary Impressionism, Politics and Anxiety....Pages 134-147
Virginia Woolf and Metonymic Realism: Making It New?....Pages 148-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Defining an ‘Age of the Novel’ in the United States....Pages 165-176
Between Modernism and the Postcolonial: Reading Patrick White and Malcolm Lowry in the 1970s....Pages 177-191
Transporting Fiction: The Novel in a (Post)Colonial World....Pages 192-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Art Unseduced by Its Own Beauty: Toni Morrison and the Humility of Experiment....Pages 211-222
The Dynamics of Residual and Emergent in the American Novel after 1940....Pages 223-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-244