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Reading the European Novel to 1900 : a Critical Study of Major Fiction from Cervantes' Don Quixote to Zola's Germinal / Daniel R. Schwarz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00591856 | Recorded BooksSeries: Reading the novelPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley - Blackwell, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118604823 (ePub)
  • 1118604822 (ePub)
  • 9781118604816 (Adobe PDF)
  • 1118604814 (Adobe PDF)
  • 9781118604830
  • 1118604830
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading the European Novel to 1900DDC classification:
  • 809.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PN3491
Other classification:
  • LIT004130
Online resources: Summary: " Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance Covers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900, including Cervantes' Don Quixote; Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov; Stendhal's The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma; Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education; Balzac's Pere Goriot; and Zola's Germinal Written with students and teachers in mind, this book provides accessible and engaging discussions of each novel, along with important pedagogical tools "-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance"-- Provided by publisher.
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" Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance Covers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900, including Cervantes' Don Quixote; Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov; Stendhal's The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma; Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education; Balzac's Pere Goriot; and Zola's Germinal Written with students and teachers in mind, this book provides accessible and engaging discussions of each novel, along with important pedagogical tools "-- Provided by publisher.

"Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author's aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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