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