The True Story of the Novel

The True Story of the Novel
	CONTENTS
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
	ANCIENT NOVELS: CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING
	PREFACE
	INTRODUCTION— IN SEARCH OF THE ANCIENT NOVEL
	PART ONE— THE ANCIENT NOVEL
		Chapter I— The Ancient Novel
		Chapter II— Love and Suffering:  The Stories of the Ancient Novels
			Chariton: Chaireas and Kallirrhoé
			Longus: Daphnis and Chloé
			Achilles Tatius: Kleitophon and Leukippé
			Law and the Individual
		Chapter III— Goddesses and Virgins:  The Freedoms of Chastity
			Alternative Cultures and Cults
			Law, Marriage, and Family
			Female Chastity: Paul and Thekla
			The Standard of Male Chastity: Ephesiaka, Joseph and Aseneth
		Chapter IV— Apollonius of Tyre and Heliodorus\' Aithiopika:  Fathers and Daughters, and Unriddling Mo...
			The Cost of Resistance: Apollonius of Tyre
			Heliodorus\' Aithiopika: Race, Identity, and Prophetic Riddles
		Chapter V— Parody, Masculinity, and Metamorphosis:  The Roman Novels of Petronius and Apuleius
			The Case of the Tired Penis: Satyricon
			Golden Asininity
		Chapter VI— The Novelistic Nature of Ancient Prose Fiction:  Character, Dialogue, Setting, Images
			Character and Characterization in the Ancient Novel
			Dialogue and Setting
			Mythology and the Images of Art: Ekphrasis
		Chapter VII— Literary Self-Consciousness and Ancient Prose Fiction:  Allusion, Narrative, Texts, and...
			Literary Allusion
			Narrative Modes and Points of View
			Epistles in Ancient Novel Narration
			The Self-Conscious Novel of Antiquity
		Chapter VIII— The Ancient Novel Religion, and Allegory
	PART TWO— THE INFLUENCE OF THE ANCIENT NOVEL
		Chapter IX— Ancient Novels and the Fiction of the Middle Ages
			Change: The Movement of Peoples
			Byzantine Fiction
			Manuscripts of Novels
			Subject Matter and Fiction: Camelot, Rome, and Troy
			Boccaccio: Filocolo
			Boccaccio: Fiammetta
			Boccaccio: Decameron
			The Novel in Spain
		Chapter X— The Ancient Novel in the Age of Print: Versions and Commentaries of the Renaissance
			The Golden Ass in Print
			The Sense of the Civic
			Education and Moral Writing
			Heliodorus in Print
			Achilles Tatius in Print
		Chapter XI— Novels in the Seventeenth Century:  Histories of Fiction and Cultural Conflicts
			Producing and Imitating the Ancient Novels
			\"New\" Ancient Novels: Petronius, Chariton, Xenophon
			Constructing A History of Prose Fiction
			Rejecting the Novel: Nasty Feudal Monarchical Romance
			Rejecting the Novel: Nasty Bourgeois Stuff
			The Puritan Attack
			The Idea of Character
		Chapter XII— The Eighteenth Century—And Beyond:  The Rise of Realism, and Escape from It
			Gendering the Reader
			The Probable and the Verisimilar
			The Rise of Realism
			Realism and the Foreign
			Escape from Prescriptive Realism: The Invention of New Forms
			The Survival of the Novel
	PART THREE— TROPES OF THE NOVEL
		Chapter XIII— Breaking and Entering
			Tropes
			The Cut, the Break
			The First Sentence of Death
			Mending
		Chapter XIV— Marshes, Shores, and Muddy Margins
			Limen and Limne
			Frontier and Wild Space
			River and Pond and Reedy Marsh
			The Sea, the Sea
			Venice
			Dirt
		Chapter XV— Tomb, Cave, and Labyrinth
			Living Death
			The Labyrinth
		Chapter XVI— Eros
			Eros of the Garden
			Cupid and Psyche
			Eros and Autobiography
			Representations of Eros
				The Child
				Dramatic and Rhetorical Artifice
				Rhetorical Figure and Pictorial Image
				Damaged Eros
			Eros Projected: The Death in Venice Problem
			Redemptive Projection: Eros as Beloved
			Negative and Sterile Eros
			Bringing Eros Back Into the Picture
		Chapter XVII— Ekphrasis:  Looking at the Picture
			The Inset Painting
			Ignorance and Alienation
				Class and Art
				Conscious Alienation
			Portrayal
			Characters as Artists
			Characters as Art
		Chapter XVIII— Ekphrasis:  Dreams and Food
			A Wonderful Dream
			Characters\' Dreams
			The Eating Game
			The Uses of Eating
		Chapter XIX— The Goddess
			Demeter-Ceres
			Aphrodite-Venus
			Artemis-Diana
			Juno-Cybele-Magna Mater
			Isis
			Mary
			The World\'s Mother
		Chapter XX— Conclusion
	NOTES
		Introduction
		Chapter I
		Chapter II
		Chapter III
		Chapter IV
		Chapter V
		Chapter VI
		Chapter VII
		Chapter VIII
		Chapter IX
		Chapter X
		Chapter XI
		Chapter XII
		Chapter XIII
		Chapter XIV
		Chapter XV
		Chapter XVI
		Chapter XVII
		Chapter XVIII
		Chapter XIX
		Chapter XX
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
		I— The Ancient Novel and the Ancient World
			I A. Ancient Novels: Original-Language Versions (Including Dual-Language) Sources of Original-Langua...
			I B. Other Printings and Translations of Ancient Novels Cited in Text, Fifteenth-Twentieth Centuries...
				Achilles Tatius
				Alexander
				Apuleius
				Chariton
				\"Dictys Cretensis\"
				Heliodorus
				Historia Apollonii
				Iamblichus
				Longus
				Lucian
				Petronius
				Xenophon of Ephesus
			I C. Modern Studies of the Ancient Novel.
			I D. Literary Works of Antiquity Excluding Novels.
			I E. Early Christian Works.
			I F. Modern Studies of the Ancient World.
		II— The Middle Ages Through the Present
			II A. Novels, Poetry, and Dramatic Fiction and Nonfiction of the Middle Ages
			II B. Works of the Renaissance, 1500-1600
				II B I. Novels, Poetry, and Dramatic Fiction
				II B 2. Nonfictional Works
			II C. Novels, Poetry and Dramatic Fiction, and Folk Tales of the Seventeenth Century
			II E. Novels, Poetry, Dramatic Fiction, and Folk Tales of the Nineteenth Century
			II F. The Twentieth Century
				II F 1. Novels, Poetry, and Dramatic Fiction
			II F 2. Nonfiction, Excluding Literary History and Criticism
		III— Literary Criticism, Literary and Cultural History, and Commentary
			III A. 1500-1995
		IV— Manuscripts Consulted
			Achilles Tatius (see also under Heliodorus)
			Alexander (History of)
			Apuleius
			Boccaccio
			Chariron
			Homer
			Heliodorus
			Lucian
			Petronius
			Richardson, Samuel
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