The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture

by Franco Moretti

Book Overview

Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691127182
• ISBN13: 9780691127187
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"