The fortunes of the novel : a study in the transposition of a genre / Robert ter Horst.

Author
Ter Horst, Robert, 1929- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Peter Lang, c2003.
Description
303 p. ; 23 cm.

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Summary note
  • "The Fortunes of the Novel examines the early emergence of the novel as a genre in Spain and its subsequent rise in England. Until the sixteenth century, poetic space had never been occupied by material concerns such as hunger, which had, in fact, been disvalued and rigorously excluded from literature. The consequent combat between poetic anti-material morality and an almost irresistible new economic motivation played itself out in Spain in a great preparatory triad composed of Lazarillo de Tormes, Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache, and Cervantes' La gitanilla. The novel floundered as a result of undercapitalization, but was revived in England by Daniel Defoe's transposition of the Hispanic fictive inheritance.
  • Ultimately, Walter Scott was the one to establish the novel as a genre that is legally conveyable and inheritable, and passed it on to Dickens, who, in Our Mutual Friend, finally produced a sufficient capital that is both poetic and good."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-298) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction: Poetics and Economics
  • 1. From Lyric to Narrative: A Common Feminine Subtext
  • 2. The Lazarillo and Female Narrative Sustenance
  • 3. Guzman de Alfarache and the Licitness of Desire
  • 4. Une Saison en enfer: La gitanilla
  • 5. Cervantes and the Paternity of the English Novel
  • 6. The Fiction of Daniel Defoe
  • 7. Scott, the Great Conveyancer: The Exemplum of Rob-Roy
  • 8. Dickens: The English Quevedo: Prefacing Our Mutual Friend.
ISBN
0820444367 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00048747^
OCLC
45102945
RCP
H - S
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