Book contents
- Technologies of the Novel
- Technologies of the Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century
- 2 The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel
- Part II
- Part III
- Annex Premises and Protocols
- A Glossary of Novel Types
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2020
Book contents
- Technologies of the Novel
- Technologies of the Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century
- 2 The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel
- Part II
- Part III
- Annex Premises and Protocols
- A Glossary of Novel Types
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter describes in more detail the truth pretense characterizing the eighteenth-century novel, and summarizes the theories that have been advanced to explain it. It then lays out a series of classificatory tags capable of covering all truth postures of the period (broadly, the Aristotelian, the pseudofactual, and the invented). The balance of the chapter presents the data, showing that the decline in the truth posture over the years 1681-1830, while indisputable, does not match what one would expect if previous explanations were valid.
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- Technologies of the NovelQuantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems, pp. 17 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020