The English Novel and Prose Narrative / / David Amigoni.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Amigoni, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Elements of Literature : EEL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface: the scope of the book and how to read it --; 1 Introduction: straightforward discourse and novel transactions --; 2 The elements of narrative analysis and the origins of the novel: reading Jane Austens Emma and Samuel Richardsons Pamela --; 3 Bildung and belonging: studying nineteenth-century narrative and ‘self-culture’ --; 4 Innovative stories and distinctive readers --; 5 History, intertextuality and the carnivalised novel: postmodern conditions and postcolonial hyhridities --; Select bibliography and suggested further reading --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748673964; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748673964
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Amigoni.

The English Novel and Prose Narrative provides an astute, wide-ranging and accessible critical introduction to the English novel and short fiction, and explores the novel's relations to narrative forms such as biography and autobiography. David Amigoni expertly guides readers in methods of narrative analysis and close reading, while stressing the need to place narratives and narrative theories in historical and cultural context. To this end, he traces critical debates about the origins of the novel, domestic realism and romance, the bildungsroman, journalism and mass culture, the experimental novel, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Adopting a case-study approach, the author provides theoretically informed readings of Pamela, Tristram Shandy, Emma, Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, Bleak House, The Spoils of Poynton, Mrs Dalloway and Midnight's Children as well as short stories by Thomas Hardy and Katherine Mansfield. While primarily an introductory guide, the book also offers a distinct approach to the history of novel criticism that will engage readers interested in the genre at all levels.Key FeaturesAn all-round introduction to the novel in historical, theoretical and critical contexts Historically and theoretically grounded readings of widely taught novels Offers ways of approaching biography and autobiography as contributions to working-class writing and women's writing Traces critical debates that have shaped fictional and non-fictional prose narratives in cultural history