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Before fiction : the ancien régime of the novel / / Nicholas D. Paige



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Autore: Paige Nicholas D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Before fiction : the ancien régime of the novel / / Nicholas D. Paige Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
Disciplina: 843/.409
Soggetto topico: French fiction - 17th century - Themes, motives
French fiction - 18th century - Themes, motives
English fiction - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Themes, motives
English fiction - 18th century - Themes, motives
Fiction - Technique
Soggetto non controllato: Cultural Studies
Literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel -- Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess (Lafayette) -- Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 (Subligny) -- Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind (Crébillon) -- Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment (Rousseau) -- Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality (Diderot) -- Chapter 6. Beyond Belief (Cazotte) -- Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Fiction 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Before fiction  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89717-2
0-8122-0510-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809312903321
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