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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 November 2020
      19 November 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108890861
      9781108835503
      9781108812849
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108890861
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Based on a systematic sampling of nearly 2000 French and English novels from 1601 to 1830, this book's foremost aim is to ask precisely how the novel evolved. Instead of simply 'rising', as scholars have been saying for some sixty years, the novel is in fact a system in constant flux, made up of artifacts – formally distinct novel types – that themselves rise, only to inevitably fall. Nicholas D. Paige argues that these artifacts are technologies, each with traceable origins, each needing time for adoption (at the expense of already developed technologies) and also for abandonment. Like technological waves in more physical domains, the rises and falls of novelistic technologies don't happen automatically: writers invent and adopt literary artifacts for many diverse reasons. However, looking not at individual works but at the novel as a patterned system provides a startlingly persuasive new way of understanding the history and evolution of artforms.

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    ‘… one can only be impressed with this highly original, thorough, and thought-provoking book. Anyone interested either in the history of the novel (whether French or not), or in current methods of Computational Literary Studies, should be reading Technologies of the Novel.’

    Christof Schöch Source: H-France

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