03082nam 2200697 450 991080851230332120200120123148.01-5261-1524-71-5261-0048-710.7765/9781526100481(CKB)3710000000924497(MiAaPQ)EBC4729837(StDuBDS)EDZ0001606271(Au-PeEL)EBL4729837(CaPaEBR)ebr11292144(OCoLC)962154239(UkMaJRU)992979626920001631(DE-B1597)658891(DE-B1597)9781526100481(EXLCZ)99371000000092449720191120h20162016 uy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNovel horizons the genre making of Restoration fiction /Gerd BayerManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (ix, 326 pages) digital file(s)Previously issued in print: 2016.1-5261-0049-5 1-78499-123-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: making novel readers -- Part I: The rise of the novel as genre -- 1. The novel and its critics -- 2. The temporality of genre -- Part II: Paratexts: the genesis of genre -- 3. Seventeenth-century writing: shifting forms -- 4. Paratext and drama -- 5. Paratext and prose -- Part III: The Restoration novel -- 6. Narrating, telling, and speaking -- 7. Types, characters, individuals -- 8. Truth and fiction: reality and the page -- Conclusion: reading a genre into being -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.'Novel Horizons' analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within prologues and introductions. This discussion about the poetics of a genre was echoed in the paratextual material of prose fictions.English fiction17th centuryHistory and criticismLiteraturemupLiterary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800bicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisachIrelandthemaGreat BritainHistoryRestoration, 1660-1688Restoration literature.early modern fiction.genre.history of the novel.novel and romance.paratexts.reader-response criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.LiteratureLiterary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIreland823.409Bayer Gerd901550UkMaJRUBOOK9910808512303321Novel horizons3991902UNINA