{"product_id":"the-origins-of-the-english-novel-16001740-9780801869952","title":"The Origins of the English Novel 16001740","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last two decades have been turbulent ones for the study of the novel, and most of the waves have been created by Michael McKeon... The fifteenth anniversary edition... offers the opportunity to reflect on McKeon's extraordinary contribution to studies of the novel... Because the work is so careful and the thinking so precise, I find the story he tells just as compelling now as in the 1980s and, if anything, more satisfying in its comprehension of issues and weaving them into a coherent whole. -- J. Paul Hunter Restoration 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:    Acknowledgments  Introduction to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition  Introduction: Dialectical Method in Literary History    PART I QUESTIONS OF TRUTH  Chapter One: The Destabilization of Generic Categories  Chapter Two: The Evidence of the Senses: Secularization and Epistemological Crisis  Chapter Three: Histories of the Individual    PART II QUESTIONS OF VIRTUE  Chapter Four: The Destabilization of Social Categories  Chapter Five: Absolutism and Capitalist Ideology: The Volatility of Reform  Chapter Six: Stories of Virtue    PART III THE DIALECTICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE NOVEL  Chapter Seven: Romance Transformations (I) : Cervantes and the Disenchantment of the World  Chapter Eight: Romance Transformations (II) : Bunyan and Literalization of Allegory  Chapter Nine: Parables of the Younger Son (I) : Defoe and the Naturalization of Desire  Chapter Ten: Parables of the Younger Son (II) : Swift and the Containment of Desire  Chapter Eleven: The Institutionalization of Conflict (I) : Richardson and the Domestication of Service  Chapter Twelve: The Institutionalization of Conflict (II) : Fielding and the Instrumentality of Belief    Conclusion  Notes  Index","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527616667991,"sku":"9780801869952","price":64.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801869952.jpg?v=1731868559","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-origins-of-the-english-novel-16001740-9780801869952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}