The Inn and the Traveller
Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel
Will McMorran
Click cover to enlarge | Legenda 1 December 2002 • 292pp ISBN: 1-900755-64-5 (paperback) • RRP £75, $99, €85 In the rich landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression - the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell. McMorran, in this wide-ranging comparative study, explores the special part played by the inn, tracing the progress of a succession of wayward heroes and narrators in five canonical texts: Cervantes's Don Quijote, Scarron's Roman comique, Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Diderot's Jacques le fataliste. As this celebration of digressive fiction unfolds, a very different picture emerges of the rise and development of the novel. Will McMorran is Lecturer in French at Queen Mary, University of London. Reviews:
Bibliography entry: McMorran, Will, The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel (Legenda, 2002) First footnote reference: 35 Will McMorran, The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel (Legenda, 2002), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 McMorran, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: McMorran, Will. 2002. The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (McMorran 2002: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 McMorran 2002: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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