TY  - GEN
AU  - Lennard J. Davis
TI  - Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel
SN  - 9780812216103
U1  - 823 DAV 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - English Fiction
N2  - "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for grantedWe've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the hidden contradictions in a genre that, even in the age of Derrida and De Man, readers are inclined to take at face value." * Village Voice *
"Factual Fictions is fresh, well-written, and often illuminating. Lennard Davis makes us see the novel as a text among other texts, an autonomous object determined by society's laws, culture, and technology as much as by the special qualities of its author and audience, and a reflection of that 'lost moment' when one might observe 'the unity of news, novels, ideology, history, fact, and fiction'." * Yearbook of English Studies *
ER  -