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How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity.

Note biographique

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He is the author of Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (OUP) and co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: An Anthology (OUP). He has edited several works by Daniel Defoe and has written widely on eighteenth-century fiction. A broadcaster and journalist as well as an academic, he writes a weekly column on contemporary fiction for the Guardian.

Table des matières

• Introduction


• 1: Beginning


• 2: Narrating


• 3: People


• 4: Genre


• 5: Voices


• 6: Structure


• 7: Detail


• 8: Style


• 9: Devices


• 10: Literariness


• 11: Ending

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