Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900

In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel. Balzac´s Paris, Dicken´s London and Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history. Contents: Towards a geography of literature; The novel, the nation-state; A tale of two cities; Narrative markets