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The point of departure for the following discussion is to reconsider the relationship between the modern novel and the concept of theory in aesthetics in some more detail. In the second and largest section, two exemplary cases of "theories of the novel" in the late eighteenth century from the German tradition will be foregrounded: the Essay on the Novel by Friedrich Blankenburg -- the first freestanding discussion on the novel that is, however, still based on rhetorical and poetical terms and the concept of life in Aristotelian tradition -- and Friedrich Schlegel's pointed remarks on theory and the novel in his Dialogue on Poetry -- a rewriting of sorts of Blankenburg's critical enterprise in terms of Kantian aesthetics. In a short epilogue the discussion will turn to Lukacs's codification of the novel's life in The Theory of the Novel. Adapted from the source document.