The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 de Steven Moore

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Bloomsbury, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Almost as New/Near Fine. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Light marks to text block edges and to wrapper edges.Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan… Leer más

Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2013. Hardcover. New. 704 pages. 9.70x6.40x3.20 inches.