Novela y Sociedad

 

      from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

The Novel and Society

 

Society and narrative fiction: General

Sociology of the novel

 

 

Society and Narrative fiction

 

Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford UP, 1987. 1990.

_____. From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. In Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 467-75.*

_____. "Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now." From Desire and Domestic Fiction. In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale. Blackwell, 2006. 621-43.*

Daiches, David. "Fiction and Civilization." From Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World. Rpt. in The Critical Spectrum. Ed. Gerald Jay Goldberg and Nancy Marmer Goldberg. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1962. 109-15.*

Flint, Kate, ed. The Victorian Novelist: Social Problems and Social Change. London: Croom Helm, 1987.*

Fox, Ralph. The Novel and the People. 1937.

Gallagher, Catherine. From Nobody's Story. In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale. Blackwell, 2006. 644-52.*

Goldmann, Lucien. Pour une sociologie du roman. Paris: Gallimard, 1961.

Goodman, Lizbeth, with Joan Digby. "Gender, Race, Class and Fiction." In Literature and Gender. Ed. Lizbeth Goodman. London: Routledge / Open U, 1996. 2001. 145-78.*

Graver, Suzanne. George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.

Hanne, Michael. The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change (Reviewed by Rey Chow). Novel (Winter 1996): 262-65.*

Hasan, Noorul. Thomas Hardy: The Sociological Imagination. London: Macmillan, 1982.

Hickey, Leo. Realidad y experiencia en la novela. Madrid: Cupsa, 1978.*

Howe, Irving. "Mass Society and Postmodern Fiction." 1959. In Howe, The Decline of the New. 190-297.

_____. "Mass Society and Post-Modern Fiction." 1959. In Klein, The American Novel since World War II.

_____. "Mass Society and Postmodern Fiction." Partisan Review 26 (1959): 426-36. Extract. In Postmodernism: A Reader. Ed. Patricia Waugh. London: Routledge, 1992. 24-31.*

Kettle, Arnold. "The Early Victorian Social-Problem Novel." In The Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Dickens to Hardy. Ed. Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958.

Miller, D. A. The Novel and the Police. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988.

_____. From The Novel and the Police. In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale. Blackwell, 2006. 541-58.*

Morán, Fernando. Novela y semidesarrollo. Madrid: Taurus, 1971.

Pérez Galdós, Benito. "La sociedad presente como materia novelable." In Galdós, Ensayos de crítica literaria. Ed. Laureano Bonet. Barcelona: Península, 1990. 157-66.*

_____. Discurso de entrada a la Academia, "La sociedad presente como materia novelable." In Galdós, Diez novelas y un discurso. Ed., introd. and notes Francisco Estévez and Germán Gullón. (Biblioteca Avrea). Madrid: Cátedra, 2017.

Thomas, R. Hinton, and Wilfried Van der Will. The German Novel and the Affluent Society. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1968.

Tompkins, Jane. "Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Fiction." From Sensational Designs. In The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Ed. Dorothy J. Hale. Blackwell, 2006. 535-40.*

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Preface by Clément Moisan. (Siegen University NIKOL series, 15). Braunschweig-Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. 

Walder, Dennis, Stephen Regan, Pam Morris and Richard Allen. "The Novel and Society." In The Realist Novel. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Routledge / Open U, 1995. 2001. 97-134.*

Wen, Pi-ch'un. "Challenges, Struggle, Compromise: A Sociological Reading of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss." South Asian Journal 25 (2005). Taoyuan Tech Institutional Repository (2011).

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Williams, Raymond. "Region and Class in the Novel." In The Uses of Fiction. Ed. Douglas Jefferson and Graham Martin. Milton Keynes: Open UP, 1982. 59-68.*

Wolfe, T. "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel." Harper's Magazine (Nov. 1989): 45-56.

Young, Arlene. Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.

Zeraffa, Michel. Roman et société. Paris: PUF, 1951.

_____. Fictions: The Novel and Social Reality. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

 

 

Anthologies

 

Hale, Dorothy J., ed. The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. Blackwell, 2006 [issued 2005]. (General introd.; & introds. to Part I, Form and Function; Part II, The Chicago School; Part III, Structuralism, Narratology, Deconstruction; Part IV, Psychoanalytic Approaches; Part V, Marxist Approaches; Part VI, The Novel as Social Discourse; Part VII, Gender, Sexuality, and the Novel; Part VIII, Post-Colonialism and the Novel).

 

 

See also Social novel; Literature and Society; Realism in fiction.

 

 

 

 

 

Sociology of the Novel

 

Amorós, Andrés. Sociología de una novela rosa. 1968.

Goldman, L. Pour une sociologie du roman. Paris: Gallimard, 1961.

_____. Para una sociología de la novela. Madrid: Ciencia Nueva, 1967.

_____. Para una sociología de la novela. Madrid: Ayuso, 1975.

Hunter, J. Paul. Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. New York: Norton, 1990.*

Jha, Prabhakara. "Lukács, Bakhtin, and the Sociology of the Novel." Diogenes 129 (1985): 63-90.

Morán, Fernando. Novela y semidesarrollo.

 

 

See also Sociology of literature.