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   May 12, 2014 · Follow. Michael Schmidt is a literary historian, poet, novelist, translator, and anthologist as well as an editor and publisher. His books include The Novel: A Biography and The First Poets. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry and higher education. He lives in Manchester, England.

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   May 12, 2014 · The Novel: A Biography. Hardcover – May 12, 2014. by Michael Schmidt (Author) 4.7 47 ratings. See all formats and editions. The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and ...

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   • The Novel isn’t just a marvelous account of what the form can do; it is also a record, in the figure who appears in its pages, of what it can do to us. The book is a biography in that sense, too. Its protagonist is Schmidt himself, a single reader singularly reading. [Schmidt] reads so intelligently and writes so pungently…

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   • Written as short anecdotal biographical sketches, the book presents lives of scientists, doctors, activists, painters, sportspeople, dancers, political leaders, economists and many more from different walks of life.

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   How many pages are in the novel A biography?

   • If focusing on the events surrounding one novel isn’t enough, or is too much, Michael Schmidt offers an eclectic variety in The Novel: A Biography. At 1,160 pages, this hefty volume features 350 novelists from Canada, Australia, Africa, Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the Caribbean and covers 700 years of storytelling.

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   Does a biography qualify as a biographical novel?

   • For Bode, if a biography is either bad or stylized, then it would qualify as a biographical novel. For instance, in charting what he considers the rise of the biographical novel, Bode begins with a brief analysis of Mason Weems's biography of George Washington.

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   The Novel. A Biography. Michael Schmidt. Hardcover. eBook. ISBN 9780674724730. Publication date: 05/12/2014. The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa ...

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   Aug 28, 2014 · To order The Novel: a Biography for £22.95 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardianbookshop.co.uk. Explore more on these topics History books

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   Oct 16, 2021 · In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt quotes from "artist practitioners," from letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists, and draws on their biographies, to invite us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggest how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English --Includes index

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   The Novel: A Biography. by Michael Schmidt. Cambridge, Mass. / London. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780674724730. With neither footnotes nor endnotes nor a lengthy bibliography, Michael Schmidt’s 1,172-page study of the novel in English is not for specialists digging for secondary sources.

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   Aug 8, 2014 · The male artist-practitioner to whom Schmidt seems to listen most attentively is V. S. Pritchett, and the “biography” subtitle is clearly a nod to Pritchett’s 1947 study, “The Living Novel.”