Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary
scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the
world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian
Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of
the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to
America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern
Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones,
Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so
recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels
that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques,
French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic
novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels.
These minor novels are not only worthy of attention in their own
right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the
major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an
explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists
experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels,
romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science
fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky,
unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary,
avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the
innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. This
sequel, like its predecessor, is a "zestfully encyclopedic, avidly
opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of
literary forms" (Booklist).
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