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Title: NATION AND NOVEL
THE ENGLISH NOVEL FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT DAY
By: Patrick Parrinder
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0199264856
ISBN 13: 9780199264858
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 August, 2008
Pages: 514
Description: Patrick Parrinder's new history of the English novel traces the form's distinctive and often subversive reflection of national identity across the centuries. From the early stories of rogues and criminals to present-day novels of immigration, fiction has played a major part in defining our ideas of England and Englishness.
Synopsis: What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by tracing English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the present-day novels of immigration. Major novelists from Daniel Defoe to the late twentieth century have drawn on national history and mythology in novels which have pitted Cavalier against Puritan, Tory against Whig, region against nation, and domesticity against empire. The novel is deeply concerned with the fate of the nation, but almost always at variance with official and ruling-class perspectives on English society. Patrick Parrinder's groundbreaking new literary history outlines the English novel's distinctive, sometimes paradoxical, and often subversive view of national character and identity.This sophisticated yet accessible assessment of the relationship between fiction and nation will set the agenda for future research and debate.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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