The True Story of the Novel |
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Author:
| Doody, Margaret Anne |
ISBN: | 978-0-8135-2453-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1997 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $42.95USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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This deeply informed and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually unacknowledged subgenres--new readings of novels like
The Pickwick Papers,
Puddn'head Wilson,
L'Assommoir,
Death in Venice, and
Beloved are accompanied by insights into
Death on the Nile or
The Wind in the Willows. Non-Western...
More Description This deeply informed and truly comparative work is staggering in its breadth. Doody treats not only recognized classics, but also works of usually unacknowledged subgenres--new readings of novels like The Pickwick Papers, Puddn'head Wilson, L'Assommoir, Death in Venice, and Beloved are accompanied by insights into Death on the Nile or The Wind in the Willows. Non-Western writers like Chinua Achebe and Witi Ihimaera are also included. In her last section, Doody goes on to show that Chinese and Japanese novels, early and late, bear a strong and not incidental affinity to their Western counterparts. Collectively, these readings offer the basis for a serious reassessment of the history and the nature of the novel.