LEADER 03541oam 22005534a 450 001 9910793769703321 005 20200402172120.0 010 $a0-8139-4285-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000008701578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5824790 035 $a(OCoLC)1108545919 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse76159 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008701578 100 $a20190729d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWithout the Novel$eRomance and the History of Prose Fiction /$fScott Black 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2019 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2019 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (x, 208 pages) 311 $a0-8139-4284-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : romance and the turbulence of literary history -- Reading mistakes in Heliodorus -- The Origins of Romance -- Romance redivivus -- The adventures of love in Tom Jones -- Tristram Shandy's strange loops of reading -- Stasis and static in The wanderer -- Coda : reading romance. 330 $aNo genre manifests the pleasure of reading--and its power to consume and enchant--more than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel demonstrates what literary history looks like from the perspective of such readerly excesses and adventures. Rejecting the assumption that novelistic realism is the most significant tendency in the history of prose fiction, Black asks three intertwined questions: What is fiction without the novel? What is literary history without the novel? What is reading without the novel? In answer, this study draws on the neglected genre of romance to reintegrate eighteenth-century British fiction with its classical and Continental counterparts. Black addresses works of prose fiction that self-consciously experiment with the formal structures and readerly affordances of romance: Heliodorus's Ethiopian Story, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Fielding's Tom Jones, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Burney's The Wanderer. Each text presents itself as a secondary, satiric adaptation of anachronistic and alien narratives, but in revising foreign stories each text also relays them. The recursive reading that these works portray and demand makes each a self-reflexive parable of romance itself. Ultimately, Without the Novel writes a wider, weirder history of fiction organized by the recurrences of romance and informed by the pleasures of reading that define the genre. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aReality in literature 606 $aAdventure stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomance fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomances$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aReality in literature. 615 0$aAdventure stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomance fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomances$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a808.3 700 $aBlack$b Scott$f1964-$01493062 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793769703321 996 $aWithout the Novel$93715892 997 $aUNINA