LEADER 04343nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910463866103321 005 20211005012515.0 010 $a1-283-89717-2 010 $a0-8122-0510-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205107 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064733 035 $a(OCoLC)810039396 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606219 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376177 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606219 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580489 035 $a(PQKB)11626455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441967 035 $a(OCoLC)794700580 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14350 035 $a(DE-B1597)449451 035 $a(OCoLC)979954213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205107 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441967 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642719 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420967 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064733 100 $a20110606d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBefore fiction$b[electronic resource] $ethe ancien re?gime of the novel /$fNicholas D. Paige 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4355-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel --$tChapter 1. The Impossible Princess (Lafayette) --$tChapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 (Subligny) --$tChapter 3. How to Read a Mind (Crébillon) --$tChapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment (Rousseau) --$tChapter 5. The Demon of Reality (Diderot) --$tChapter 6. Beyond Belief (Cazotte) --$tConclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFiction has become nearly synonymous with literature itself, as if Homer and Dante and Pynchon were all engaged in the same basic activity. But one difficulty with this view is simply that a literature trafficking in openly invented characters is a quite recent development. Novelists before the nineteenth century ceaselessly asserted that their novels were true stories, and before that, poets routinely took their basic plots and heroes from the past. We have grown accustomed to thinking of the history of literature and the novel as a progression from the ideal to the real. Yet paradoxically, the modern triumph of realism is also the triumph of a literature that has shed all pretense to literalness. Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel offers a new understanding of the early history of the genre in England and France, one in which writers were not slowly discovering a type of fictionality we now take for granted but rather following a distinct set of practices and rationales. Nicholas D. Paige reinterprets Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, Rousseau's Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Diderot's La Religieuse, and other French texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in light of the period's preoccupation with literal truth. Paige argues that novels like these occupied a place before fiction, a pseudofactual realm that in no way leads to modern realism. The book provides an alternate way of looking at a familiar history, and in its very idiom and methodology charts a new course for how we should study the novel and think about the evolution of cultural forms. 606 $aFrench fiction$y17th century$xThemes, motives 606 $aFrench fiction$y18th century$xThemes, motives 606 $aEnglish fiction$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xThemes, motives 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xThemes, motives 606 $aFiction$xTechnique 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aFiction$xTechnique. 676 $a843/.409 700 $aPaige$b Nicholas D$0871841 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463866103321 996 $aBefore fiction$92480381 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01084nas a2200253 i 4500 001 991001768559707536 005 20231114120631.0 008 030911s19999999it ar 000 0ita d 035 $ab12194347-39ule_inst 229 $aPrisma 245 00$aPrisma :$borgano dell'istituto nazionale di documentazione per la ricerca e l'innovazione educative. - 1999- 260 $aFirenze,$c1999- 591 $aCodice CNR: PT02109679 592 $aLE022 1999-2000. 592 $aLE002 1999-2000. 907 $a.b12194347$b23-02-12$c11-09-03 912 $a991001768559707536 945 $aLE002 D Per. Lac. 26$g1$lle002$o-$pE0.00$q-$rl$so $t18$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i15001052$z14-09-09 945 $aLE022$g1$lle022$o-$pE0.00$q-$rn$so $t18$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i12563365$z11-09-03 945 $aLE022$ca. 1$g1$lle022$nanno 1999$on$pE20.66$q-$rn$so $t18$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i12566081$z17-09-03 945 $aLE022$ca. 2$g1$lle022$nanno 2000$on$pE18.08$q-$rn$so $t18$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i12566111$z17-09-03 996 $aPrisma$962124 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale002$a(3)le022$b11-09-03$cs$da $e-$fita$git $h0$i4