New Directions in the History of the Novel

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction PART I: THE MATERIAL TEXT 2. Novel Designs: Manipulating the Page in English Fiction, 1660-1780; Thomas Keymer 3. Textual Instability and the Contemporary Novel: Reading Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing On and Off the Page; Andrew Nash 4. The Early American Novel in Fragments: Writing and Reading Serial Fiction in the Post-Revolutionary United States; Matthew Pethers 5. Archive Fever: The Publishers' Archive and the History of the Novel; Nicola Wilson PART II: LITERARY HISTORIES: QUESTIONS OF REALISM AND FORM 6. Memory, Interiority and Historicity: Some Factors in the Early Novel; Patrick Parrinder 7. A Gothic History of the British Novel; Nancy Armstrong 8. Critical Histories of Omniscience; Rachel Sagner Buurma 9. The 'power of the written word': Literary Impressionism, Politics and Anxiety; Max Saunders 10. Virginia Woolf and Metonymic Realism: Making It New?; Pam Morris PART III: THE NOVEL IN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES 11. Defining an 'Age of the Novel' in the United States; Jonathan Arac 12. Between Modernism and the Postcolonial: Reading Patrick White and Malcolm Lowry in the 1970s; Mark Williams 13. Transporting Fiction: The Novel in a (Post)Colonial World; Simon Gikandi PART IV: THE NOVEL NOW 14. Art Unseduced by Its Own Beauty: Toni Morrison and the Humility of Experiment; David James 15. The Dynamics of Residual and Emergent in the American Novel after 1940; Cyrus R. K. Patell and Deborah Lindsay Williams