How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

Nancy Armstrong

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Paper, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13059-2
$27.50 / £19.00

January, 2006
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13058-5
$80.00 / £55.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction. How Novels Think

1. How the Misfit Became a Moral Protagonist

2. When Novels Made Nations

3. Why a Good Man Is Hard to Find in Victorian Fiction

4. The Polygenetic Imagination

5. The Necessary Gothic

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Nancy Armstrong is chair of the English department and Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media, and Gender Studies at Brown University. She is the author of several books including, Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism and Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.

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