Novel Moore Steven Independent Scholar USA
Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian…
Specifikacia Novel Moore Steven Independent Scholar USA
Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry.This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only worthy of attention in their own