«...convincing and extremely interesting.
—Slavic Review»

«The wider implication of the analysis in Estranging the Novel is that we need an account of novels which are 'anomalous or strange' that considers their strangeness on its own terms rather than how it accords with or departs from a single history of the nove...l. [Bartoszynska] provides a compelling call for a new way of thinking about the novel's history and form, and the role of peripheral literatures within it.
—Modern Language Review»

«Estranging the Novel is a highly original attempt to offer an alternative method for the study of the novel by juxtaposing texts derived from Polish and Irish novelistic traditions.
—Eighteenth-Century Fiction»

«This book would be an important contribution to novel studies for the novels it studies alone....Reading this book not only helped me realize what I miss in knowing so little about Polish literature and not being able to read the Polish language, but it also helped me speculate about all the other things I did not know about novels and world literature.
—Novel: A Forum on Fiction»

«Bartoszynska's book is overall a lucid and captivating study...Estranging the Novel will reward readers who are searching for a thoughtful conversation with the most recent updates in theories of world literature.
—Genre»

«For the researcher, the way this book continually presses against insufficient accounts of the novel is invigorating. So too, the close readings are clearly written by a scholar who loves the capacities of fiction in all their complexity. As a scholar and reader, for me this book's biggest payoff was its sustained discussion of worlding—specifically, via Eric Hayot, of the ways that occluded complexities of fiction bring new possibilities of thought into being.
—Daniel Dewispelare, Studies in the Novel»

«[Bartoszynska] uses an impressively wide-ranging analytic toolkit in her readings with recurring tropes such as metafictionality, irony, ekphrasis, temporality, the role of prefaces and footnotes....Not only does her book estrange the idea of the novel, but it also makes us think about the ruts we are stuck in when approaching literary works from different traditions.
—Kasia Szymanska, Literature and History»