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Technologies of the Novel - Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems (Hardcover)
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Technologies of the Novel - Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems (Hardcover)
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Based on a systematic sampling of nearly 2000 French and English
novels from 1601 to 1830, this book's foremost aim is to ask
precisely how the novel evolved. Instead of simply 'rising', as
scholars have been saying for some sixty years, the novel is in
fact a system in constant flux, made up of artifacts - formally
distinct novel types - that themselves rise, only to inevitably
fall. Nicholas D. Paige argues that these artifacts are
technologies, each with traceable origins, each needing time for
adoption (at the expense of already developed technologies) and
also for abandonment. Like technological waves in more physical
domains, the rises and falls of novelistic technologies don't
happen automatically: writers invent and adopt literary artifacts
for many diverse reasons. However, looking not at individual works
but at the novel as a patterned system provides a startlingly
persuasive new way of understanding the history and evolution of
artforms.
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