{"product_id":"the-story-of-fictional-truth-paul-dawson-9780814215470","title":"The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Fictional Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Dawson looks anew at the historical relationship between the genre of the novel and the concept of fictionality, arguing that existing scholarship on the emergence of realist fiction has been shaped by the trope of the death of the novel. The unexplored logic of this premise is that the novel was born anticipating its own demise, with both its requiem and its reflexive origins legible in the ontological challenge of postmodern metafiction. To test this logic, Dawson traces shifting assumptions about what constitutes the illusion of fictional truth from early novels such as \u003ci\u003eThe History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless\u003c\/i\u003e (1751) to contemporary autofiction such as Megan Boyle's \u003ci\u003eLiveblog\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). In doing so, he contests and revises long-held views about the origins and functions of key formal features of the realist novel by investigating when and how they came to be seen as signposts of fictionality. Through this history, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Fictional Truth\u003c\/i\u003e opens up new ways to understand the novel's afterlife in a post-truth digital age characterized by a collapse of referentiality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814215475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814215470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Paul Dawson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079773778175,"sku":"9780814215470","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ca1b49a-bccc-4982-8ba7-02e56fcea788.jpg?v=1685483060","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-story-of-fictional-truth-paul-dawson-9780814215470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}