Introduction

The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-32

  Cohen, Margaret ^a   Dever, Carolyn ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1515/9781400826780.1     Document Type: Editorial

References (66)

1. Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785; reprint, New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), 111.
2. Ioan Williams, ed., Novel and Romance, 1700-1800 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970)
3. Joan DeJean, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France [New York: Columbia University Press, 1991], 176).
4. see Katie Trum-pener, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997]).
5. see Doody, The True Story of the Novel (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996).
6. See also Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981);
7. Tomas Hägg, The Novel in Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983).
8. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953), vol. 5.
9. Georg Lukács, The Historical Novel (1937), trans. Hannah Mitchell and Stanley Mitchell (London: Merlin, 1982), 23
10. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953), 458.
11. Michael Holquist, in Bakhtin, Dialogic Imagination, xxxi.
12. Timothy Brennan offers an alternative reading of Bakhtin's significance for studies linking the novel and nation in "The National Longing for Form," in Nation and Narration, ed. Homi K. Bhabha (New York: Routledge, 1990).
13. Thus Michael McKeon writes: "What is required is a theory not just of the rise of the novel but of how categories, whether 'literary' or 'social,' exist in history: how they first coalesce by being understood in terms of-as transformations of-other forms that have thus far been taken to define the field of possibility" (The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987], 4).
14. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), 9.
15. George May, Le Dilemme du roman au dix-huitiegrave;me siegrave;cle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963), 183. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations from French originals cited in this introduction are by Cohen.
16. Dangerous Truths, Criminal Passions [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992], 11).
17. Peter Brooks's Novel of Worldliness (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969)
18. Important critics in this lineage include Barbéris, Moretti, Prendergast, Terdiman, and even Barthes in his own way. Macherey's focus is also indicative of the problem we are describing: his studies move from Robinson Crusoe to French novelists of the nineteenth century, first Balzac, then the popular fiction of Verne.
19. Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England, trans. and ed. W. O. Henderson and W. H. Chaloner (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958).
20. For the diverse methodologies that have led feminist critics to rethink literary exchange beyond national borders, see, for example, the writings of April Alliston, Nina Auerbach, Joan DeJean, Catherine Gallagher, Nancy Miller, Felicity Nussbaum, and Patricia Spacks.
21. Bhabha, Nation and Narration, 4.
22. William Beatty Warner, Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), 19.
23. Stating that that eighteenth-century British "debate about the novel" "assumes that the novels of different nations belong to the same cultural field" and that in fact "eighteenth-century British cultural critics often gave France precedence over England in the invention of several different species of romances and novels," Warner suggests that novels became nationalized "coextensive with the nationalization of culture and the rise of the discipline of English literary studies" (20, 19).
24. Bhabha, Nation and Narration, 4.
25. See Georg Lukács, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," in History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, trans Rodney Livingstone (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971), 83-222.
26. Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal, "Towards a Postnational Model of Membership," in The Citizenship Debates, ed. Gebon Shefir [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999], 191).
27. Katharyne Mitchell, "Multiculturalism in Canada," in Global/Local, ed. Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996), 219, 220.
28. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994); Between Women and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
29. Norma Alarcón, Caren Kaplan, and Minoo Moallem (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999), which includes articles by a number of contributors to Scattered Hegemonies; and Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies
30. David Palumbo-Liu and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
31. Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 1.
32. Colley, Britons, 3.
33. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981).
34. Margaret Cohen, The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
35. See Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel.
36. On the introduction of French romance into England, see Thomas Philip Haviland, The Roman de longue haleine on English Soil (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1931);
37. Annabel M. Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984).
38. Robert Adams Day, Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction before Richardson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966);
39. David F. Foxon, Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745 (London: Shenval, 1964).
40. We thank Deidre Lynch for information about Delariviegrave;re Manley.
41. We owe this question, along with many details in this overview, to Mary Helen McMurran. For details on the flow of translations in each direction see her
42. "Translation and the Novel, 1660-1800" (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1998).
43. See May, Le Dilemme du roman, 76.
44. William Warburton, preface to vol. 3 of Clarissa Harlowe (1748), republished in Williams, Novel and Romance, 123.
45. Williams, Novel and Romance, 122.
46. On Richardson's relation to the chroniques scandaleuses, see Catherine Gallagher, Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994).
47. On this subject, see Dena Goodman's The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
48. Our thanks to Richard Maxwell for this information. For more on the translation of sentimental fiction in England, see Josephine Grieder, Translations of French Sentimental Prose Fiction in Late Seventeenth-Century England: The History of a Literary Vogue (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1975).
49. John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith in their preface to the collection Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 5.
50. See also Alliston's forthcoming Character and Plausibility: Gender and the Genres of Historical Narrative, 1650-1850.
51. John Richetti's tremendously useful Popular Fiction before Richardson: Narrative Patterns, 1700-1739 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969).
52. Margaret Cohen and Christopher Prendergast (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 21.
53. Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 115. Our thanks to Deidre Lynch for this citation.
54. On this subject, see Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism.
55. See Moretti's Atlas of the European Novel for suggestive numbers concerning the shift of novelistic production outwards from the Channel, notably the previously quoted section on 173-74.
56. On the novel's global premodern antecedents, see Bakhtin, Dialogic Imagination; Doody, True Story of the Novel; and Hägg, Novel in Antiquity.
57. On this subject, see Cohen, Sentimental Education of the Novel.
58. On this subject, see Richard Maxwell, The Mysteries of Paris and London (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992). Our thanks here to Maxwell and Sharon Marcus.
59. Warner, Licensing Entertainment, 20.
60. Jean-François La Harpe, Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne, 3 vols. (1791-1804; reprint, Paris: Firmin Didot, 1851), 3:192.
61. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891; reprint, ed. Peter Ackroyd, New York: Penguin, 1985)
62. Linda Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994).
63. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Knopf, 1987).
64. Honoré de Balzac, La Fille aux yeux d'or (1834; reprint, Paris: Garnier, 1966), 393.
65. Rhonda K. Garelick, Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de siegrave;cle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
66. Henri Mondor and G. Jean-Aubry [Paris: Bibliothegrave;que de la Pléiade, 1974], 1156).