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The true story of the novel

Margaret Anne Doody 1997 © Rutgers University Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780813524535 (paper)
  • 9780813521688 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Literature
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page xi)
  • CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING (page xv)
  • PREFACE (page xvii)
  • INTRODUCTION In Search of the Ancient Novel (page 1)
  • PART ONE The Ancient Novel
    • CHAPTER I The Ancient Novel (page 15)
    • CHAPTER II Love and Suffering: The Stories of the Ancient Novels (page 33)
    • CHAPTER III Goddesses and Virgins: The Freedoms of Chastity (page 62)
    • CHAPTER IV Appolonius of Tyre and Heliodorus' Aithiopika: Fathers and Daughters, and Unriddling Mother's Plot (page 82)
    • CHAPTER V Parody, Masculinity, and Metamorphosis: The Roman Novels of Petronius and Apuleius (page 106)
    • CHAPTER VI The Novelistic Nature of Ancient Prose Fiction: Character, Dialogue, Setting, Images (page 125)
    • CHAPTER VII Literary Self-Consciousness and Ancient Prose Fiction: Allusion, Narrative, Texts, and Readers (page 142)
    • CHAPTER VIII The Ancient Novel, Religion, and Allegory (page 160)
  • PART TWO The Influence of the Ancient Novel
    • CHAPTER IX Ancient Novels and the Fiction of the Middle Ages (page 175)
    • CHAPTER X The Ancient Novel in the Age of Print: Versions and Commentaries of the Renaissance (page 213)
    • CHAPTER XI Novels in the Seventeenth Century: Histories of Fiction and Cultural Conflicts (page 251)
    • CHAPTER XII The Eighteenth Century-and Beyond: The Rise of Realism, and Escape from It (page 274)
  • PART THREE Tropes of the Novel
    • CHAPTER XIII Breaking and Entering (page 303)
    • CHAPTER XIV Marshes, Shores, and Muddy Margins (page 319)
    • CHAPTER XV Tomb, Cave, and Labyrinth (page 337)
    • CHAPTER XVI Eros (page 359)
    • CHAPTER XVII Ekphrasis: Looking at the Picture (page 387)
    • CHAPTER XVIII Ekphrasis: Dreams and Food (page 405)
    • CHAPTER XIX The Goddess (page 432)
    • CHAPTER XX Conclusion (page 465)
  • NOTES (page 487)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 531)
  • INDEX (page 555)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
NOV 30.3 (Spring 1997): 405-408 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1345762
MP 96.3 (Feb. 1999): 364-370 http://www.jstor.org/stable/439222
WLT 72.1 (Winter 1998): 218-219 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40153740
MLR 93.3 (July 1998): 773-774 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3736507
AHR 103.1 (Feb. 1998): 137-138 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650781
RLFCJ 21 (Sep. 1998): 34-36 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30228784
MLN 112.5 (Dec. 1997): 990-993 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3251432
18CF 9.3 (Apr. 1997): 349-353 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth_century_fiction/summary/v009/9.3.spacks.html
UTQ 67.1 (Winter 1997/1998): 141-142 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/university_of_toronto_quarterly/summary/v067/67.1.hepburn.html
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