Notes on Contributors viii Preface xiii Part I The Novel and Its Histories 1 1 The 1740s 3Patricia Meyer Spacks 2 The 1790s 18Lynn Festa 3 The 1850s 34Ivan Kreilkamp 4 The Long 1920s 49Jennifer Wicke 5 The 2000s 71Ashley Dawson Part II The Novel and Its Genres 87 6 Realism and the Eighteenth‐Century Novel 89John Richetti 7 Romance 103Laurie Langbauer 8 Gothic 117John Paul Riquelme 9 Popular and Mass‐Market Fiction 132Janice Carlisle 10 Experimental Fictions 144Mark Blackwell 11 The Novel into Film 159Jonathan Freedman Part III The Novel in Pieces 175 12 Some Versions of Narration 177Alison Booth 13 Some Versions of Form 192Stephen Arata 14 A Character of Character, in Five Metaphors 209Deidre Lynch 15 Affect in the English Novel 225Nicholas Daly Part IV The Novel in Theory 239 16 The Novel in Theory before 1900 241James Eli Adams 17 The Novel in Theory, 1900–1965 256Chris Baldick 18 The Novel in Theory after 1965 271Madigan Haley Part V The Novel in Circulation 289 19 Making a Living as an Author 291Deirdre David 20 The Network Novel and How It Unsettled Domestic Fiction 306Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse 21 Reading Novels, Alone and in Groups 321Andrew Elfenbein Part VI Geographies of the Novel 339 22 London 341Cynthia Wall 23 The Provincial Novel 360John Plotz 24 Intranationalisms 373James Buzard 25 Internationalisms and the Geopolitical Aesthetic 387Lauren M. E. Goodlad Part VII The Novel, Public and Private 407 26 The Novel and the Everyday 409Kate Flint 27 The Public Sphere 426John Marx 28 The Novel and the Nation 441Christopher GoGwilt 29 World English/World Literature 456Jonathan Arac Index 471

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