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Time and the Novel: The Genealogical Imperative
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Time and the Novel: The Genealogical Imperative
Contributors:
By (Author) Patricia Drechsel Tobin
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
8th March 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Dewey:
809.3
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Dimensions:
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
Weight:
227g
Description
Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead, on the modern novel's temporal structure. She notes that the "genealogical imperative" that dominated the nineteenth-century novel, in which one event gave birth to another, has broken down in the twentieth-century novels she studies. F
