The Novel: A Biography by Schmidt, Michael

The Novel: A Biography

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions...
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Author: Michael Schmidt
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The Novel: A Biography by Schmidt, Michael

The Novel: A Biography

€65,33

The Novel: A Biography

€65,33
Author: Michael Schmidt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity.

Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but artist practitioners, men and women who feel hot love for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English.

Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché--some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.

Author: Michael Schmidt
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 05/12/2014
Pages: 1200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.05lbs
Size: 10.35h x 6.87w x 2.18d
ISBN: 9780674724730


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2014
Library Journal 04/01/2014 pg. 92
New York Times Book Review 08/10/2014 pg. 17
Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 440
Books & Culture 11/01/2015 pg. 32

About the Author
Schmidt, Michael: - Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow and a writer in residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press.

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