Before Fiction : : The Ancien Régime of the Novel / / Nicholas D. Paige.
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 nine...
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