An Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1859848834 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World and Modern Epic, all from Verso. Franco Moretti teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
John Abbott said Steps towards a literary geography. Although I enjoyed it immensely, this book somewhat disappoints in that its themes aren't taken far enough. As Terry Eagleton said in the TLS "the way is paved for a 'literary geography'. But such a geography is not established here. Chapter one concentrates on the social issues implied by location, movements and class in Austen, Scott, and in Spanish and French 19th century works. In the second chapt. D. Joseph Lane said Map of More Than You Think. Charting the ebb and flow of intellectual life is a fun pasttime, if one has the inclination. Franco Moretti's new book, Atlas of the Historical Novel, is interesting because it is another example of the current ebb. In 1998 W. J. T. Mitchell published The Last Dinosaur Book, which contained a plea for a "synthesis of Darwin and those other two great early modern thinkers Marx and Freud." Such a stat
An Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 explores the fascinating connections between literature and space. In a final chapter on “narrative markets,” Moretti tells us which books were most popular in the provincial libraries of Victorian Britain, and charts the European diffusion of Don Quixote, Buddenbrooks, and the great nineteenth-century bestsellers. Reading his Atlas, we become aware of the secret structure of Dickens’s and Conan Doyle’s London, and see how the fictional settings of Austen’s Britain, or picaresque Spain, or the France of the Comedie humaine imagine national identity in different ways. In Franco Moretti’s Atlas, maps are net ornaments, but analytical tools which, in making connections explicit and visible, allow us to ‘see’ literature in a completely new way. This path-breaking study suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.. A groundbreaking study in literary geography. In this pioneering study, Franco Moretti presents a fresh and exciting perspective en the European novel. In a series of one hundred maps, Moretti illuminates the geographical assumptions of nineteenth-century novels and the geographical reach of particular authors and genres across the continent.
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Valentine Cunningham, 17 January 1999. With intellectual elegance, Moretti invites us to use maps not as all-encompassing solutions, but as generations of ideas. -- Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the RoseA real breakthrough in making us see the role of place as a subject of 19th century fictionEvery page, which is to say every one of Moretti's lovely maps, every chart and flow plan and graph, brings home with singular and original vividness aspects of the materiality of the fictional condition and of the condition of fiction that one would not have thought of