Download or read book The Literary Channel written by Margaret Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Channel zone, the novel developed through interactions among texts, readers, writers, and translators that inextricably linked national literary cultures. It served as a forum to promote and critique nationalist cliches, whether from the standpoint of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, the insurgent nationalism of colonized spaces, or the non-nationalized culture of consumption. In the process, the Channel zone promoted codes that became the genre's hallmarks, including the sentimental poetics that would shape fiction through the nineteenth century.