The Novel Network

The Novel Network group examines the relationship between the novel and the 鈥榚veryday鈥�.

About us

Comprising academics from across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Novel Network examines the novel from a range of disciplinary perspectives: from the literary critical to the socio-historical, philosophical and ethnographic.

We consider:

how the global novel functions politically and socially
whether periodicity is a useful way of classifying novels or whether there is another more compelling way they can historicised
the current state of novel theory
whether there is more than a nostalgic place for the novel鈥檚 particular readerly pleasures, such as: for deep absorption, for the framework of the page and the tactile rhythm of its turning.

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Our events

We run conferences, masterclasses and reading groups which not only showcase the work of its members, but provide valuable training for our postgraduate student and future academic members.

A selection of our activity

In 2018, three core members of the Novel Network, Smith, Hardie and Frow, visited Harvard, funded combinedly by Harvard and the University of Sydney鈥檚 office of global engagement, presenting their research in a series of colloquia at the Mahindra Humanities Centre.

Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, (October 18, masterclass)

Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, (October 16, lecture)

(May 24, masterclass)

Tina Lupton, Copenhagen, 2024: 鈥� (April 12, masterclass)

Deidre Lynch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard, 2023: Believing in Novels: Hoax, Hocus, and the Gothic (November 7, lecture); Ephemera, Leavings, and the Boundaries of the Book in the Electronic Age: The Case of Ali Smith (November 8, masterclass)

Jonathan Arac, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh, 2016: Amitav Ghosh鈥檚 Ibis Trilogy in American World Literature (lecture); Triangulating Moby Dick: Intersections of American Studies, World Literature, and Theory of the Novel (masterclass)

Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor of English, Duke Univeristy, 2013: The Affective Turn in the Contemporary Novel (lecture and masterclass)

Our publications

We've generated numerous publications and core members of the Novel Network, Frow, Hardie and Smith, edit the Oxford University Press series .

Frow, J., Hardie, M., Smith, V. (2020). The Bildungsroman: form and transformations. Textual Practice, 34(12).

Cogle, J., Fischer, N., Saleh Rofail, L., Smith, V. (2018). Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday. Lexington Books.

Frow, J., Smith, V. (2017). The Prosaic Imaginary. Novel, 50(1).

Smith, V., Frow, J. (2016). Novel Worlds. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 63(2-3).

Affiliations

The Novel Network is formally affiliated (via a Memorandum of Understanding) with the in the United States.

Our people

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