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(in US dollars)  Miguel de Cervantes
(1547-1616)
Spanish novelist
 2 other titles  Laurence Sterne
(1713-69)
English novelist
3 other titles  Denis Diderot
(1713-84)
French philosopher
4 other titles | Legenda: Oxford, 2002
£35.00 ($65.00 US) Paperback 292pp
With one illustration
ISBN: 1-900755-64-5
In the rich landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression — the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell. McMorran, in this wide-ranging comparative study, explores the special part played by the inn, tracing the progress of a succession of wayward heroes and narrators in five canonical texts: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Scarron’s Roman comique, Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Diderot’s Jacques le fataliste. As this celebration of digressive fiction unfolds, a very different picture emerges of the rise and development of the novel. Will McMorran is Lecturer in French at Queen Mary, University of London. Reviews:
- ‘The book could serve, almost by the way, as a brief introduction to the modes of early narrative fiction in any of the European languages on which it draws.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies XL.1, 2004, 112
- ‘McMorran’s approach offers a number of intriguing comparisons among a set of novels not itherto considered together in a single study. It places Fielding and Sterne within a broader European context, which so many Anglocentric treatments fail to do. Most important, it usefully interrogates the ways that travel within a text reflects, influences, and subverts travel through a text.’ — Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17:2, 2005, 288-90
- ‘A highly accomplished comparatist, McMorran respects the specificities of the national traditions to which the works he discusses belong while teasing out the overarching European narrative on which his interpretation depends.’ — Charles Forsdick, Modern Language Review 102.1, January 2007, 187-88
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