Cohen / Dever The Literary Channel

The Inter-National Invention of the Novel
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2951-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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Margaret Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton) and Profane Illumination and the coeditor of Spectacles of Realism. Carolyn Dever is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Feminism, In Theory and Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Margaret

Dever, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vi

Introduction by Margaret Cohen and Carolyn Dever 1

PART I: The Novel without Borders 35

CHAPTER ONE: Transnationalism and the Origins of the (French) Novel by Joan DeJean 37

CHAPTER TWO: National or Transnational? The Eighteenth-Century Novel 50

CHAPTER THREE: Sentimental Bonds and Revolutionary Characters: Richardson's Pamela in England and France by Lynn Festa 73

CHAPTER FOUR: Sentimental Communities by Margaret Cohen 106

CHAPTER FIVE: Transnational Sympathies, Imaginary Communities by April Slliston 133

PART II: Imaging the "Othered" Nation 149

CHAPTER SIX: Phantom States: Cleveland, The Recess and the Origins of Historical Fiction by Richard Maxwell 151

CHAPTER SEVEN: Gender, Empire, and Episolarity: FromJane Austen's Mansfeild Park to Marie-Therese Humbert's La montogue des Signaux by Francoise Lionnet 183

CHAPTER EIGHT: The (Dis)locations of Romantic Nationalism: Shelley, Stael, and the Home-Schooling of Monsters by Deidre Shauna Lunch 194

CHAPTER NINE: "An Occult and Immoral Tyranny": The Novel, the Police, and the Agent Provocateur by Carolyn Dever 225

CHAPTER TEN: Comparative Sapphism by Sharon marcus 251

AFTERWORD: From Literary Channel to Narrative Chunnel by Emily Apter 286

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 295

CONTRIBUTORS 303

INDEX 305

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton) and Profane Illumination and the coeditor of Spectacles of Realism. Carolyn Dever is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Feminism, In Theory and Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud.