TY - BOOK AU - Parrinder,Patrick AU - Nash,Andrew AU - Wilson,Nicola TI - New directions in the history of the novel SN - 9781349439461 (pbk.) : U1 - 809.3 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Literature KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Transferred to digital printing; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - What exactly, and when, was the rise of the novel? Is its dominance now over? How have material conditions, habits of reading, and authors' reactions to the changing international marketplace helped to shape the novel as a form? In a series of studies of British, American and postcolonial fiction from the 17th to the 21st century, this book challenges conventional accounts of the history of the novel and sets out new areas for teaching and research ER -