Description
Book SynopsisThis book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.
Trade Review"Jobst Welge's impressive new book... argues deftly for an intimate relation between national geography and historical narrative." Times Literary Supplement "Jobst Welge's impressive new book... argues deftly for an intimate relation between national geography and historical narrative." -- Talia Schaffer Times Literary Supplement One of the most significant critical works about the European/American novel since Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel (1957). Choice
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Periphery and Genealogical Discontinuity: The Historical Novel of the Celtic Fringe (Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott)
3. Progress and Pessimism: The Sicilian Novel of Verismo (Giovanni Verga and Federico De Roberto)
4. National and Genealogical Crisis: The Spanish Realist Novel (Benito Pérez Galdós)
5. Nature, Nation, and De-/Regeneration: The Spanish Regional Novel (Emilia Pardo Bazán)
6. Dissolution and Disillusion: The Novel of Portuguese Decline (Eça de Queirós)
7. Surface Change: A Brazilian Novel and the Problem of Historical Representation (Machado de Assis)
8. The Last of the Line: Foretold Decline in the Twentieth- Century Estate Novel (José Lins do Rego)
9. Death of a Prince, Birth of a Nation: Time, Place, and Modernity in a Sicilian Historical Novel (G. Tomasi di Lampedusa)
10. Epilogue: The Perspective from the End
Notes
Bibliography
Index
