The Literary Channel : : The Inter-National Invention of the Novel / / Carolyn Dever, Margaret Cohen.

The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and Fr...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Translation/Transnation ; 21
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction / Cohen, Margaret / Dever, Carolyn
  • PART I. The Novel without Borders
  • CHAPTER ONE. Transnationalism and the Origins of the (French?) Novel / Dejean, Joan
  • CHAPTER TWO. National or Transnational? The Eighteenth-Century Novel / Mcmurran, Mary Helen
  • CHAPTER THREE. Sentimental Bonds and Revolutionary Characters: Richardson's Pamela in England and France / Festa, Lynn
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Sentimental Communities / Cohen, Margaret
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Transnational Sympathies, Imaginary Communities / Alliston, April
  • PART II. Imagining the "Othered" Nation
  • CHAPTER SIX. Phantom States: Cleveland, The Recess, and the Origins of Historical Fiction / Maxwell, Richard
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Gender, Empire, and Epistolarity: From Jane Austen's Mansfield Park to Marie-The´ re` se Humbert's La Montagne des Signaux / Lionnet, Françoise
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The (Dis)locations of Romantic Nationalism: Shelley, Stae¨ l, and the Home-Schooling of Monsters / Lynch, Deidre Shauna
  • CHAPTER NINE. "An Occult and Immoral Tyranny": The Novel, the Police, and the Agent Provocateur / Dever, Carolyn
  • CHAPTER TEN. Comparative Sapphism / Marcus, Sharon
  • AFTERWORD. From Literary Channel to Narrative Chunnel / Apter, Emily
  • Selected Bibliography
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX