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The Fortunes of the Novel
Robert Ter Horst
其他書名
A Study in the Transposition of a Genre
出版Peter Lang, 2003
主題Literary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / Spanish & PortugueseLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Comparative Literature
ISBN08204443679780820444369
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cjBaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Fortunes of the Novel examines the early emergence of the novel as a genre in Spain and its subsequent rise in England. Until the sixteenth century, poetic space had never been occupied by material concerns such as hunger, which had, in fact, been disvalued and rigorously excluded from literature. The consequent combat between poetic anti-material morality and an almost irresistible new economic motivation played itself out in Spain in a great preparatory triad composed of Lazarillo de Tormes, Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache, and Cervantes' La gitanilla. The novel floundered as a result of undercapitalization, but was revived in England by Daniel Defoe's transposition of the Hispanic fictive inheritance. Ultimately, Walter Scott was the one to establish the novel as a genre that is legally conveyable and inheritable, and passed it on to Dickens, who, in Our Mutual Friend, finally produced a sufficient capital that is both poetic and good.