The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

by Marcie Frank

Book Overview

2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title

Marcie Frank's study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel's narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and focusing on the less-examined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684481678
• ISBN13: 9781684481675
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher