Novel Characters: A Genealogy

(Wiley-Blackwell) This study aims to reinstate character to its proper and central place in the art of fiction. The author argues that the novel is the literary form best suited to create characters of real, often troubling distinction, and that it has a generic disposition, amounting to an obligation, to do so. DiBattista is a professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton.

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Terri Sewell ’86 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, stands next to a portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis.
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History is in Terri Sewell ’86’s hands; campus mental health culture; the two Princetons.