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Afterword: The Novel as Method
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2020
- pp. 281-285
- 10.1353/ecy.2020.0019
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
This response essay considers what it means to argue that the novel provides a theory of something rather than come up with a theory of the novel. It answers by focusing on method. Does literature have a method of engaging the world? What methods do we bring to novels?