Technologies of the Novel

The first quantitative history of the novel's evolution, written with the tools and perspectives provided by the digital humanities.

Nicholas D. Paige, Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (2011), awarded the 2013 ASECS Gottschalk prize, and Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity (2001). Technologies of the Novel was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Introduction; Part I; 1. Truth Postures in the Novel of the Long Eighteenth Century; 2. The Rise and Fall of the Aristotelian Novel; Part II; 3. Novel v. Romance I: Heliodorian Insetting; 4. Novel v. Romance II: The Fortunes of a Subtitle; 5. Novel v. Romance III: Measuring romans and Nouvelles; 6. Documenticity I: Memoirs (and Other First Persons); 7. Documenticity II: The Two Rises of the Epistolary Novel; 8. A 'New' Third-Person Novel; 9. The Novel System in England, 1701-1810; Part III; 10. The Evolution of Literary Technologies; Bibliography; Index.