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G. Wells  \nScience Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching James Joyce  \nThe Failure of Theory: Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Fiction Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism 1750–1990 Shadows of the Future  \n( AS EDITOR )  \nH. G. Wells: The Critical Heritage  \nScience Fiction: A Critical Guide  \nH. G. Wells’s Literary Criticism (with Robert M. Philmus) Learning from Other Worlds The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (with John S. Partington)  \nNation &Novel  \nThe English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day  \nPATRICK PARRINDER  \nAC  \nAC  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nPublished in the United States  \nby Oxford University Press Inc., New York  \n\\# Patrick Parrinder 2006  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker)  \nFirst published 2006  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available  \nTypeset by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain  \non acid-free paper by  \nClays Ltd, St Ives plc ISBN 0–19–926484–8 978–0–19–926484–1  \nFor Anna and Monika, and for Mia and Eve  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nPreface and Acknowledgements  \nNation and Novel is a literary history of the English novel and its distinctive, often subversive contribution to ideas of nationhood. In it I have concentrated for the most part on the major novelists, those whose writings have been most influential and have attracted a lasting and international readership. I have engaged in more detailed textual interpretation than is usual in literary history, pursuing the approach to the nature of the novel form and its relationship to English national identity that I outline in Chapter 1. My primary intellectual debt in writing this book has been to the small army of literary critics and cultural historians who have transformed the study of English fiction of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in recent decades. This book could not have been written without their labours of historical research, textual editing, cultural theorizing, and reinterpretation. Few of the scholars on whom I have drawn are explicitly named in the chapters that follow—the alternative would have been to have put their names, which can be distracting for the non-specialist reader, on every page—but my appreciation of their work is no less heartfelt for that. All citations in the text are identified in the notes, and it is there and in the Further Reading that my indebtedness can be traced.  \nNation and Novel has taken me many years to write—I am embarrassed to say how many—and there have been a number of fals","cbCaidRiOR1GXto6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidRiOR1GXto6","pdf",2136539,513,"English","# Preface and Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of Nation and Novel?\",\"answer\":\"It is a literary history of the English novel that examines its distinctive contribution to ideas of nationhood.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author approach the novel form and national identity?\",\"answer\":\"The author pursues an approach centered on the nature of the novel form and its relationship to English national identity, with more detailed textual interpretation than typical literary histories.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of support and scholarship does the book rely on?\",\"answer\":\"The project draws on historical research, textual editing, cultural theorizing, and reinterpretation, and it acknowledges major intellectual and institutional support, including research fellowship funding.\"}]","Nation and Novel - Preface and Acknowledgements | PDF",1789975375,790]