Before Novels

Before Novels
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 0393308618
ISBN-13 : 9780393308617
Rating : 4/5 (617 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Before Novels by : J. Paul Hunter

Download or read book Before Novels written by J. Paul Hunter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia


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