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3 - Novel v. Romance I

Heliodorian Insetting

from Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2020

Nicholas D. Paige
Nicholas D. Paige
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University of California, Berkeley
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This chapter is the first of three that attempt to empirically measure the commonly attested rupture between the roman and the nouvelle around the year 1660. (This rupture is a version of the frequent opposition in English literary history between romance and novel.) According to Du Plaisir’s 1683 Sentiments sur les lettres, the use of inset narratives would appear to be a defining formal characteristic of the roman. After exploring the haphazard spread of this device from the French translation of Heliodorus’s Aethiopica in the 1540s to the opening of the seventeenth century, the chapter details the rise and fall of various sorts of insetting up to 1750.

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Du PlaisirRomaceromanNovelnouvelleHeliodorusAmyotinset narrativesabsolutismthe baroque
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Technologies of the Novel
Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems
 , pp. 63 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Novel v. Romance I
  • Nicholas D. Paige, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: Technologies of the Novel
  • Online publication: 06 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108890861.004
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  • Novel v. Romance I
  • Nicholas D. Paige, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: Technologies of the Novel
  • Online publication: 06 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108890861.004
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  • Novel v. Romance I
  • Nicholas D. Paige, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book: Technologies of the Novel
  • Online publication: 06 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108890861.004
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