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In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character' prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists' concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individual consciousness to address the distinctively political ways in which the modern nation-state shapes the psyche of its subjects. Tracing this theme through Joyce, Proust and Conrad, amongst others, Lewis claims that modern novelists gave life to a whole generation of narrators who forged new social realities in their own images. Their literary techniques - multiple narrators, transcriptions of consciousness, involuntary memory, and arcane symbolism - focused attention on the shaping of the individual by the nation and on the potential of the individual, in time of crisis, to redeem the nation.

In the 16th century, the prose novel 'Fortunatus' underwent an intermedial mouvance process across a number of illustrated print editions, in which base texts and woodcut illustrations responded to each other in a transformative manner. This attests to the novel's turbulent reception-history, which is particularly evident in the episode of the Virgin of Fortune. The reuse of visual material from Georg Wickram's 'Ritter Galmy' moreover helps to support a didactic reading.

\"An extraordinary book, and a 'first' on the topic. . . . Bacchilega has a remarkable capacity to reveal the intersections of folklore, literature, and film. Her interpretations of classical folk-tale types and their postmodern revisions . . . are stunning.\"--Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota.