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The Rise of the Novel Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Rise of the Novel Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

By Ian Watt

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"In this influential study, Ian Watt traves the genesis and development of the most popluar of all literay forms, the novel. In his penerating and original readings of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, he investigates the reasons why the three main eighteenth-century novelist wrote in the way they did - a way resulting ultimately in the modern novel of the present day. The rise of the middle classes and of economic individualism, the philosophical innovations of the seventeeth ...Show more

Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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9780712664271

Publisher

Pimlico

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Rise of the Novel Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Format

Paperback

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