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The Man-of-the-City Novel

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In this chapter I define a type of novel I call the man-of-the-city novel. I provide definitions and examples and deal with the possible biographical contracts.

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  • Booth, Wayne C., 1973 (1961), The Rhetoric of Fiction, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press

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  • Romberg, Bertil, 1962, Studies in the Narrative Technique of the First-Person Novel, Stockholm, Sweden, Almqvist & Wiksell

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Jensen, F. (2019). The Man-of-the-City Novel. In: Henry Miller and Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33165-8_7

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