Description: The Novel Stage traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel's narrative form and to the modern organization of literature.
Review Quotes: "An important and long-overdue consideration of the relationship between the theater and the novel in the long 18th century, The Novel Stage treats major Restoration and 18th-century dramatic forms--tragicomedy, comedy of manners, and melodrama--as they abandon the stage to take up residence in prose fiction. Essential."-- "Choice"