The novel a biography

Cambridge, Mass. / London. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt | Goodreads

2014. ISBN 9780674724730

With neither footnotes nor endnotes nor a lengthy bibliography, Michael Schmidt’s 1,172-page study of the novel in English is not for specialists digging for secondary sources. With a timeline and an extensive index of authors, however, the book should appeal to general readers interested in the sheer variety of and interplay among authors and their novels.

My copy displays two titles: The Novel: A Biography on the cover and title page, making it official, and A Life of the Novel along the hardback spine.

Schmidt disclaims any master theory or strictly chronological order, grouping short biographies and books into chapters by technique or theme. For instance, Aphra Behn is placed with Zora Neale Hurston in “Enter America.” He is interested in kinships, how authors influence, extend, and react to one another, in order to determine their lit The Novel: A Biography by Michael Schmidt, Hardcover | Barnes ...

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