Dorothy J. Hale is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (1998), which won the George and Barbara Perkins Prize given yearly by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature for the best book published on narrative.

Acknowledgments.

General Introduction.

Part I: Form and Function.

1 Victor Shklovsky, "Sterne's TristramShandy".

2 Vladimir Propp, from Morphology of the Folktale.

3 Henry James, Prefaces to the New York Edition.

Preface to The Portrait of a Lady.

Preface to The Ambassadors.

4 Percy Lubbock, from The Craft of Fiction.

5 Northrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism.

"Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres".

Part II: The Chicago School.

6 R. S. Crane, from "The Concept of Plot and the Plot ofTom Jones".

7 Ralph W. Rader, "Richardson to Austen".

8 Wayne C. Booth, from The Rhetoric of Fiction.

Part III: Structuralism, Narratology, Deconstruction.

9 Tzvetan Todorov, from The Poetics of Prose.

10 Seymour Chatman, from Story and Discourse.

"Discourse: Covert versus Overt Narrators".

11 Roland Barthes, "The Reality Effect".

12 Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text".

13 J. Hillis Miller, from Reading Narrative.

"Indirect Discourses and Irony".

14 Barbara Johnson, from A World of Difference.

"Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were WatchingGod".

Part IV: Psychoanalytic Approaches.

15 René Girard, from Deceit, Desire, and the Novel.

"'Triangular' Desire".

16 Shoshana Felman, from "Turning the Screw ofInterpretation".

"The Turns of the Story's Frame: a Theory ofNarrative".

17 Peter Brooks, " Freud's Masterplot".

Part V: Marxist Approaches.

18 Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller".

19 György Lukács, from Studies in EuropeanRealism.

20 György Lukács, "The Ideology ofModernism".

21 Fredric Jameson, from The Political Unconscious.

Part VI: The Novel as Social Discourse.

22 Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel.

23 M. M. Bakhtin, from "Discourse in the Novel".

24 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from The Signifying Monkey.

"Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text".

25 Jane Tompkins, from Sensational Designs.

"Introduction: The Cultural Work of AmericanFiction".

26 D. A. Miller, from The Novel and the Police.

Part VII: Gender, Sexuality, and the Novel.

27 Virginia Woolf, "Women and Fiction".

28 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Between Men.

29 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Queer Performativity: HenryJames's.

The Art of the Novel".

30 Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction.

"The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then andNow".

31 Catherine Gallagher, from Nobody's Story.

Part VIII: Post-Colonialism and the Novel.

32 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Three Women's Textsand a.

Critique of Imperialism".

33 Edward W. Said, from Culture and Imperialism.

"Consolidated Vision".

34 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Location of Culture.

"DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins ofthe.

Modern Nation".

35 Franco Moretti, from Atlas of the European Novel.

"The Novel, the Nation-State".

Part IX: Novel Readers.

36 Wolfgang Iser, from The Implied Reader.

"The Reader as a Component Part of the Realisti.

37 Nina Baym, from Novels, Readers, and Reviewers.

"The Triumph of the Novel".

38 Garrett Stewart, from Dear Reader.

"In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in MaryShelley".

Index

"Readers of Dorothy J. Hale's The Novel: An Anthology of
Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 will find the volume to be two
books in one. One book is the anthology proper, which brings
together essays that theorize the complex nature and history of
novelistic fiction. Those essays became classroom classics in
colleges and universities during the last forty years of the 20th
century. The second is a virtual book of its own comprised of
Hale's brilliant introductions to the theoretical essays.
Elaborating each of the essays, interweaving their significance and
the significance of the schools of theory from which the essays
derive, Hale's meditations are a supplemental bonus to all teachers
and students with a taste for 'novel theory.' "
Robert L. Caserio, author of Plot, Story and the Novel and
The Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory.