Mary Helen McMurran

Publications

The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century
Mary Helen McMurran (NEH Fellow, 2001-02)

Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? The Spread of Novels explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation.