The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740JHU Press, 22/05/2002 - 529 من الصفحات The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the considerable response and commentary the book has attracted since its publication by describing dialectical method and by applying it to early modern notions of gender. Challenging prevailing theories that tie the origins of the novel to the ascendancy of "realism" and the "middle class," McKeon argues that this new genre arose in response to the profound instability of literary and social categories. Between 1600 and 1740, momentous changes took place in European attitudes toward truth in narrative and toward virtue in the individual and the social order. The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. |
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The Destabilization of Social Categories | 131 |
The Greek Enlightenment | 134 |
The TwelfthCentury Renaissance | 140 |
4 Progressive Ideology and the Transvaluation of Honor | 150 |
5 The Rise of the Gentry | 159 |
6 From Status to Class | 162 |
7 The Persistence of Aristocracy | 167 |
8 The Formation of Conservative Ideology | 169 |
2 Historical Models for Progressive Narratives | 218 |
3 Historical Models for Conservative Narratives | 226 |
4 Ideological Implications of Generic Models | 238 |
5 The Gendering of Ideology | 255 |
6 The Conflation of Truth and Virtue | 265 |
THE DIALECTICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE NOVEL | 271 |
Romance Transformations I Cervantes and the Disenchantment of the World | 273 |
Romance Transformations II Bunyan and the Literalization of Allegory | 295 |
9 Understanding Status Inconsistency | 171 |
Absolutism and Capitalist Ideology The Volatility of Reform | 176 |
1 The Absolute Prince Absolutized | 178 |
2 Sword and Robe | 182 |
3 Protestants and Capitalists | 189 |
4 Evaluating Human Appetites | 200 |
5 Progressive Ideology and Conservative Ideology | 205 |
Stories of Virtue | 212 |
Parables of the Younger Son I Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire | 315 |
Parables of the Younger Son II Swift and the Containment of Desire | 338 |
The Institutionalization of Conflict I Richardson and the Domestication of Service | 357 |
The Institutionalization of Conflict II Fielding and the Instrumentality of Belief | 382 |
Conclusion | 410 |
Notes | 423 |
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