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Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.

Plurality of worlds in literature. --- A Book Of. --- Author. --- Ballantine Books. --- Ben Okri. --- Bildungsroman. --- Biographical novel. --- Book. --- Buchi Emecheta. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Canon (fiction). --- Castle in the Air (novel). --- Critical Essays (Orwell). --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Deathless (novel). --- Devotio Moderna. --- Diary. --- Dime novel. --- Divergent (novel). --- Edward Said. --- English novel. --- English poetry. --- Epic and Novel. --- Epigram. --- Epistolary novel. --- Fabulation. --- Feuilleton. --- Fiction writing. --- Fiction. --- G. (novel). --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- God Knows (novel). --- Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights). --- Historical fiction. --- Historiography. --- Horace Walpole. --- Ibid (short story). --- In Parenthesis. --- Inception. --- Indulekha (novel). --- J. R. R. Tolkien. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Kusamakura (novel). --- La Religieuse (novel). --- Le Morte d'Arthur. --- Literary fiction. --- Literary theory. --- Literature and Revolution. --- Literature. --- Matter of Britain. --- Memoir. --- Mervyn Peake. --- Mine Boy (novel). --- Modernity. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Niranjana (writer). --- Novel of manners. --- Novel. --- Novelas ejemplares. --- Novelist. --- Novella. --- Pen name. --- Persius. --- Picaresque novel. --- Poetry. --- Point of Origin (novel). --- Postmodern literature. --- Proletarian literature. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Puritans. --- Raag Darbari (novel). --- Rant (novel). --- Romance novel. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sine ira et studio. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taiping Guangji. --- Terra Nostra (novel). --- The Empire Writes Back. --- The Franklin's Tale. --- The Great Indian Novel. --- The Modern World (novel). --- The Realist. --- The Tale of the Heike. --- Theodore Dreiser. --- Tobias Smollett. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel). --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Victorian literature. --- Waverley Novels. --- World literature. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Zaynab (novel). --- Zhuangzi (book).