Download or read book The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947 written by S. Ercolino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity.