Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1 – Big People and Little People: Two Cases of Disproportion

Chapter 1 – Rabelais and Mannerism

Chapter 2 – Swift and Commensuratio

Part 2 – Pathologies of Deformation: Jonson, Sade, Pynchon

Chapter 3 – Narcissism: Jonson and the Disfigured Self

Chapter 4 – Sade and the Deformed Body

Chapter 5 – Hysteria: Pynchon’s Cartoon Space

Part 3 – Back to the Future: From Picasso to Aristotle

Chapter 6 – Modernism and Mannerism

Chapter 7 – Space and Time for the Ancients

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

"There is a lot to like about William Donoghue's Mannerist Fiction. The organizing theme is original and convincing, the readings of fiction in the context of the history of science are strong, and the book contains some wonderful surprises." -- Michael D. Bristol, Greenshields Professor Emeritus in English Literature, McGill University "Mannerist Fiction is an impressive piece of literary scholarship. William Donoghue displays a remarkably wide-ranging erudition, and his readings are deeply engaged, provocative, and even paradigm-bending in their own right." -- David Porter, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

About the Author

William Donoghue is an associate professor in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College.

Reviews

‘Donoghue takes his readers on a vast tour that is sure to expose them to things they have never before contemplated in light of "mannerist" invention.’
*Kritikon Litterarum vol 44:1-2:2017*