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Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel
"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h
264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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October 5, 2016
Less great than I'd hoped. Good on setting up the origins of novels in some unlikely sources, but Foucault often brought in to spackle over parts of arguments. Plus the Fielding chapter felt a bit tacked on.
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