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A history of the French novel (to the close of the 19th century) (Volume I) from the Beginning to 1800

A history of the French novel (to the close of the 19th century) (Volume I) from the Beginning to 1800

Saintsbury, George

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Literary CriticismFrench HistoryGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 9353706998
ISBN13: 9789353706999
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 516
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How did the French novel become modern at all? George Saintsbury traces its rise from earliest experiments to the threshold of 1800, with a critic's ear for style and a historian's sense of cause. Written to launch his wider survey to the close of the 19th century, this opening volume establishes the lineage of narrative craft that later European fiction inherits. A story of forms shifting. Volume I offers a richly informed literary history reference to French prose fiction: romance and satire, courtly narrative and philosophical tale, the long argument between realism and artifice. Saintsbury is never bland: he weighs reputations, sketches the evolution of taste, and shows how form responds to politics, salons, and the reading public. Saintsbury's academic literary criticism maps the development of the novel across changing manners, publishing, and ideas, making this history of French novels a lucid guide to French fiction to 1800 and to the distinctive energies of eighteenth century French fiction. For french literature students it clarifies names, movements, and contexts; for literary research for scholars it remains a dependable scholarly reference edition for comparative literature studies, connecting French innovation to wider European practice. Read straight through, it is also a classic criticism collection, brisk, opinionated, and often alive to the pleasures as well as the problems of narrative. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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