Wiggins charts just one of the paths by which newness—in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel—entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across Europe snapped up novels, they domesticated the genre.

Introduction: "Little French books" and the European Novel 1. Fashion Restructures the Literary Field 2. Curing the French Disease 3. 1688: The Roman Becomes Both Poetical and Popular 4. 1696: Bringing the Roman to Market Conclusion. Robinson Crusoe Sails on the European MarketBibliography Index

"Bethany Wiggin addresses the culture of the novel in Europe in what she argues should be understood as the important transitional period of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Though she focuses primarily on German-language works, Wiggin intervenes in histories of the novel told merely as narratives of nation, working comparatively across the German-language, French, and English traditions. Deeply engaged with contemporary debates about translation and transnationalism, globalism and world literature, print culture and gender, Wiggin puts pressure on both period and genre categories in innovative ways. Novel Translations will encourage scholars in a number of fields to take a second look at the intersection of several European cultures in these neglected years."—Jane O. Newman, University of California, Irvine

Bethany Wiggin addresses the culture of the novel in Europe in what she argues should be understood as the important transitional period of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Though she focuses primarily on German-language works, Wiggin intervenes in histories of the novel told merely as narratives of nation, working comparatively across the German-language, French, and English traditions. Deeply engaged with contemporary debates about translation and transnationalism, globalism and world literature, print culture and gender, Wiggin puts pressure on both period and genre categories in innovative ways. Novel Translations will encourage scholars in a number of fields to take a second look at the intersection of several European cultures in these neglected years.

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