Novel Characters : A Genealogy

Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth historyof the novelistic character from the birth of thenovel in Don Quixote, through the great canonicalworks of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the mostinfluential international novels of the present day * An original study which offers a unique approach to thinkingabout and discussing character * Makes extensive reference to both traditional and more recentand specialized academic studies of the novel * Provides a critical vocabulary for understanding how thenovelistic conception of character has changed over time. * Examines a broad range of novels, cultures, and periods * Promotes discussion of how different cultures and times thinkabout human identity, and how the concept of what a character ishas changed over time