{"product_id":"the-true-story-of-the-novel-paperback","title":"The True Story of the Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargaret Anne Doody\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century historians and critics defending the novel have emphasized its role as \u003ci\u003esuperseding\u003c\/i\u003e something else, as a sort of legitimate usurper that deposed the Epic, a replacement of myth, or religious narrative. To say that the Age of Early Christianity was really also the Age of the Novel rumples such historical tidiness--but so it was. From the outset of her discussion, Doody rejects the conventional Anglo-Saxon distinction between Romance and Novel. This eighteenth-century distinction, she maintains, served both to keep the foreign--dark-skinned peoples, strange speakers, Muslims, and others--largely out of literature, and to obscure the diverse nature of the novel itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePuddn'head Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eL'Assommoir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeloved \u003c\/i\u003e are accompanied by insights into \u003ci\u003eDeath on the Nile\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Wind in the Willows. \u003c\/i\u003eNon-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 \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe True Story of the Novel \u003c\/i\u003emarks the beginning of the twenty-first century's understanding of fiction and of culture. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARGARET ANNE DOODY is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she is Director of the Comparative Literature Program. She is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Alchemists\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Aristotle Detective\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as other books, including \u003ci\u003eFrances Burney: The Life in the Works\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers University Press, 1988).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 610\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.46 x 9.04 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56096464634161,"sku":"9780813524535","price":94.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/Kz1A6UAFSr9780813524535.webp?v=1788422260","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/the-true-story-of-the-novel-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}