Verlag:
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary ""zone"" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military...
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The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary ""zone"" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers, critics, and readers enthusiastically exchanging works, codes, and theories of the novel. Building on both nationally based literary history and comparatist work on poetics, this book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. In t.