Introduction
Part 1 – Big People and Little People: Two Cases of Disproportion
Chapter 1 – Rabelais and Mannerism
Chapter 2 – Swift and Commensuratio
Part 2 – Pathologies of Deformation: Jonson, Sade, Pynchon
Chapter 3 – Narcissism: Jonson and the Disfigured Self
Chapter 4 – Sade and the Deformed Body
Chapter 5 – Hysteria: Pynchon’s Cartoon Space
Part 3 – Back to the Future: From Picasso to Aristotle
Chapter 6 – Modernism and Mannerism
Chapter 7 – Space and Time for the Ancients
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"There is a lot to like about William Donoghue's Mannerist Fiction. The organizing theme is original and convincing, the readings of fiction in the context of the history of science are strong, and the book contains some wonderful surprises." -- Michael D. Bristol, Greenshields Professor Emeritus in English Literature, McGill University "Mannerist Fiction is an impressive piece of literary scholarship. William Donoghue displays a remarkably wide-ranging erudition, and his readings are deeply engaged, provocative, and even paradigm-bending in their own right." -- David Porter, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
William Donoghue is an associate professor in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College.
‘Donoghue takes his readers on a vast tour that is sure to expose
them to things they have never before contemplated in light of
"mannerist" invention.’
*Kritikon Litterarum vol 44:1-2:2017*
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