Margaret Anne Doody's recent book about its "true story" traces its roots to the works of Achilles Tatius and Chariton. Franco Moretti's "atlas" of it charts its spread in Europe in the 19th century. A Michael McKeon book traces its history in England, but the classic study of its "rise" was written by Ian Watt. Mikhail Bakhtin discussed its characteristic "heteroglossia" in his book The Dialogic Imagination.  Georg Lukacs contrasted it with the 
Margaret Anne Doody's recent book about its "true story" traces its roots to the works of Achilles Tatius and Chariton. Franco Moretti's "atlas" of it charts its spread in Europe in the 19th century. A Michael McKeon book traces its history in England, but the classic study of its "rise" was written by Ian Watt. Mikhail Bakhtin discussed its characteristic "heteroglossia" in his book The Dialogic Imagination.  Georg Lukacs contrasted it with the epic in his book on The Theory of it. FTP, identify this literary form, defined by Randall Jarrell as "a prose narrative of a certain length," examples of which include The Fountainhead, Battlefield Earth and Jennie Gerhardt.
Margaret Anne Doody's recent book about its "true story" traces its roots to the works of Achilles Tatius and Chariton.
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