The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen
2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title

Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined narrative contributions of such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald, alongside those of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen, The Novel Stage tells the story of the novel as it was shaped by the stage.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 

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The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen
2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title

Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined narrative contributions of such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald, alongside those of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen, The Novel Stage tells the story of the novel as it was shaped by the stage.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 

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The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

by Marcie Frank
The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

by Marcie Frank

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2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title

Marcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined narrative contributions of such authors as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and Elizabeth Inchbald, alongside those of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen, The Novel Stage tells the story of the novel as it was shaped by the stage.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684481675
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication date: 02/14/2020
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Pages: 230
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

MARCIE FRANK is a professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism from Dryden to Manley and How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal, and co-editor with Jonathan Goldberg and Karen Newman of This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Genre, Media, and the Theory of the Novel 15

2 The Reform of the Rake from Rochester to Inchbald 43

3 Performing Reading in Richardson and Fielding 75

4 The Promise of Embarrassment: Frances Burney's Theater of Shame 97

5 Melodrama in Inchbald and Austen 125

Coda: The Melodramatic Address 157

Acknowledgments 167

Notes 171

Bibliography 199

Index 215

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