The True Story Of The Novel by Margaret Doody
An erudite, wide-ranging study that maps the long, discontinuous emergence of the novel as a literary form, showing how narrative techniques inherited from ancient romances, medieval chronicles and early-modern satire evolved into the character-focused realism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; it challenges the myth of a single point of invention, argues that novels produce moral and psychological truth through invented narratives rather than factual reportage, and analyzes how changes in voice, plot, and the representation of individual consciousness explain the genre's rise as the principal means of representing human experience.
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