Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory.
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Kent, R. A. (2015). The late medieval origins of the modern novel. The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel (pp. 1–278). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137522917
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