{"product_id":"the-literary-channel-margaret-cohen-9780691050027","title":"The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Literary Channel\u003c\/i\u003e defines a crucial transnational literary \"zone\" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers, critics, and readers enthusiastically exchanging works, codes, and theories of the novel. Building on both nationally based literary history and comparatist work on poetics, this book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the Channel zone, the novel developed through interactions among texts, readers, writers, and translators that inextricably linked national literary cultures. It served as a forum to promote and critique nationalist clichés, whether from the standpoint of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, the insurgent nationalism of colonized spaces, or the non-nationalized culture of consumption. In the process, the Channel zone promoted codes that became the genre's hallmarks, including the sentimental poetics that would shape fiction through the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Uniting leading critics who bridge literary history and theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Channel\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to all readers attentive to the future of literary studies, as well as those interested in the novel's development, British and French cultural history, and extra-national patterns of cultural exchange. Contributors include April Alliston, Emily Apter, Margaret Cohen, Joan DeJean, Carolyn Dever, Lynn Festa, Françoise Lionnet, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Sharon Marcus, Richard Maxwell, and Mary Helen McMurran.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691050023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691050027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Margaret Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153082855679,"sku":"9780691050027","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_725d4378-06df-477b-a4ca-74c2e853a27d.jpg?v=1770781167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-literary-channel-margaret-cohen-9780691050027","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}