The novel
an alternative history : beginnings to 1600
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Word Count
174,500 words, Guess
Page Count
698 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenovelalternative0000moor_b6y8
- ISBN-101441177043
- ISBN-139781441177049
- Library of Congress Control Number2010279268
- OCLC Control Number496962025
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781441177049
- Open LibraryOL25059720M
Classifications
- DDC809.3
- LCCPN3451 .M66 2010
- LCCPN3491
Description
Worldwide survey of novels from ancient Egyptian prototypes to the year 1600.
Description
Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel : An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining The Novel : An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
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