Title An exemplary history of the novel : the Quixotic versus the picaresque / Walter L. Reed.

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Description	viii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Problem with a poetics of the novel -- On the origins of the novel -- Advent of the Spanish picaresque -- Counterfiction of Don Quixote -- Moll Flanders and the picaresque: the transvaluation of virtue -- Joseph Andrews and the Quixotic: the politics of the classic -- Tristram shandy: displacement as signification -- Pickwick papers and Vanity fair: the renascence of convention -- Confidence-man and A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court: the novel, the original, and the new -- Felix Krull and The sot-weed factor: the modernity of the archaic -- Novel and history.
Subject	Fiction -- History and criticism.
	Fiction.
	English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	English fiction.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction.
	English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.
	English-speaking countries.
	Intellectual life.
	Roman -- Histoire et critique.
	Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Roman américain -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Romans.
	Novela inglesa -- Siglo XVIII -- Historia y crítica
	Novela inglesa -- Siglo XIX -- Historia y crítica
ISBN	0226706834
	9780226706832