The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot

by Leah Price

Book Overview

The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of the rise of the novel. Covering British novelists from Richardson to George Eliot, this study asks why the epistolary novel disappeared, how the book review emerged, and how editors' reproduction of old texts has shaped authors' production of new ones. This provocative book promises...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521539390
• ISBN13: 9780521539395
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"