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How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, __Minor Characters Have Their Day__ offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters. Rosen traces the recent surge in “minor-character elaboration” to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys’s __Wide Sargasso Sea__ and Tom Stoppard’s __Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead__. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab’s wife, Huck Finn’s father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, an

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Author

Rosen, Jeremy

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435275645

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism

Rating

3.68 / 5 (387 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13