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The true story of the novel
Margaret Anne Doody
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Frontmatter
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page xi)
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CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING (page xv)
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PREFACE (page xvii)
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INTRODUCTION In Search of the Ancient Novel (page 1)
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PART ONE The Ancient Novel
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CHAPTER I The Ancient Novel (page 15)
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CHAPTER II Love and Suffering: The Stories of the Ancient Novels (page 33)
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CHAPTER III Goddesses and Virgins: The Freedoms of Chastity (page 62)
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CHAPTER IV Appolonius of Tyre and Heliodorus' Aithiopika: Fathers and Daughters, and Unriddling Mother's Plot (page 82)
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CHAPTER V Parody, Masculinity, and Metamorphosis: The Roman Novels of Petronius and Apuleius (page 106)
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CHAPTER VI The Novelistic Nature of Ancient Prose Fiction: Character, Dialogue, Setting, Images (page 125)
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CHAPTER VII Literary Self-Consciousness and Ancient Prose Fiction: Allusion, Narrative, Texts, and Readers (page 142)
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CHAPTER VIII The Ancient Novel, Religion, and Allegory (page 160)
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PART TWO The Influence of the Ancient Novel
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CHAPTER IX Ancient Novels and the Fiction of the Middle Ages (page 175)
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CHAPTER X The Ancient Novel in the Age of Print: Versions and Commentaries of the Renaissance (page 213)
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CHAPTER XI Novels in the Seventeenth Century: Histories of Fiction and Cultural Conflicts (page 251)
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CHAPTER XII The Eighteenth Century-and Beyond: The Rise of Realism, and Escape from It (page 274)
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PART THREE Tropes of the Novel
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CHAPTER XIII Breaking and Entering (page 303)
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CHAPTER XIV Marshes, Shores, and Muddy Margins (page 319)
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CHAPTER XV Tomb, Cave, and Labyrinth (page 337)
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CHAPTER XVI Eros (page 359)
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CHAPTER XVII Ekphrasis: Looking at the Picture (page 387)
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CHAPTER XVIII Ekphrasis: Dreams and Food (page 405)
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CHAPTER XIX The Goddess (page 432)
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CHAPTER XX Conclusion (page 465)
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NOTES (page 487)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 531)
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INDEX (page 555)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: 1997
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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