"Demonstrating remarkable diversity, "Cultural Institutions of the Novel" calls for nothing short of a radical change in the basis for defining fiction from ontology to function. It provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the questions on which the next generation of scholars of the novel is setting to work."--Nancy Armstrong, Brown University
"I have been provoked to fundamentals by the challenge of this book, and so will other readers."--Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh
