The lives of the novel : a history /

Pavel, Thomas G., 1941-

The lives of the novel : a history / Thomas G. Pavel. - xii, 346 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.

Strong souls, degrees of perfection -- Helpless souls, tricksters, and rascalsod -- The center of action: elegiac stories and novellas -- An isolated realm, hesitant lovers: the pastoral -- Don Quixote and the history of the novel -- The new idealism -- Resistance to new idealism -- Love: romantic and impossible -- Novels and society -- From sensitive hearts to enigmatic psyches -- Syntheses, high points -- Loners in a strange world.

9780691121895 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

2012043265


Fiction--History and criticism.
Novela--Historia y crítica.

PN 3365 / P337l 2013

809.3