The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel by Rachel A. Kent

By Rachel A. Kent

Dramatically clean the age-old debate in regards to the novel's origins and goal, Kent strains the foundation of the trendy novel to a overdue medieval fascination with the wounded, and infrequently eroticized, physique of Christ. quite a lot of texts support to demonstrate this discovery, starting from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to modern literary theory.

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