ENGLISH

Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780812205107
DOI
10.9783/9780812205107
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
893 kB (914565 bytes)
Pages
304\299
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 20:31:59

Description

Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France. Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.

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