Pavel, Thomas G.,  1941- <br/><br/>
The lives of the novel :  a history / 
Thomas G. Pavel. 
 - xii, 346 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691121895 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012043265 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Novela--Historia y crítica.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 3365  / P337l 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.3