This new study of the origins of the English novel argues that the novel emerged from historical writing. Examining historical writers and forms frequently neglected by earlier scholars, Robert Mayer shows that in the seventeenth century historical discourse embraced not only "h…
En 1914, Albert Einstein avait été invité à donner les conférences Michonis au Collège de France, organisées à partir de 1905 grâce au mécène Georges Michonis, pour y accueillir des savants étrangers. L'entrée en guerre l'empêcha de venir à Paris. Sous l'impulsion de Paul Langev…
New perspectives on historical writing
"The title for this book, "a World of Fiction," has three meanings, and these have continued to underpin and shape the book. The most straightforward concerns the global origins of fiction in nineteenth-century Australian newspapers. While British, Australian, and American works…
