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Encyclopedic In Scope And Heroically Audacious, The Novel : An Alternative History Is The First Attempt In Over A Century To Tell The Complete Story Of Our Most Popular Literary Form. Contrary To Conventional Wisdom, The Novel Did Not Originate In 18th-century England, Nor Even With Don Quixote, But Is Coeval With Civilization Itself. After A Pugnacious Introduction, In Which Moore Defends Innovative, Demanding Novelists Against Their Conservative Critics, The Book Relaxes Into A World Tour Of The Premodern Novel, Beginning In Ancient Egypt And Ending In 16th-century China, With Many Exotic Ports-of-call: Greek Romances; Roman Satires; Medieval Sanskrit Novels Narrated By Parrots; Byzantine Erotic Thrillers; 5000-page Arabian Adventure Novels; Icelandic Sagas; Delicate Persian Novels In Verse; Japanese War Stories; Even Mayan Graphic Novels. Throughout, Moore Celebrates The Innovators In Fiction, Tracing A Continuum Between These Premodern Experimentalists And Their Postmodern Progeny. Irreverent, Iconoclastic, Informative, Entertaining The Novel : An Alternative History Is A Landmark In Literary Criticism That Will Encourage Readers To Rethink The Novel. The Ancient Novel. Egyptia

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Author

Steven Moore

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic & Professional

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441145475

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Reference

Rating

4.12 / 5 (105 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14