The rise of the novel; studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.
Title:
The rise of the novel; studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.
Author:
Watt, Ian P.
ISBN:
9780520013179
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Publication Information:
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1957.
Physical Description:
319 p. 23 cm.
Contents:
Realism and the novel form -- The reading public and the rise of the novel -- Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel -- Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders -- Love and the novel: Pamela -- Private experience and the novel -- Richardson as novelist: Clarissa -- Fielding and the epic theory of the novel -- Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones -- Realism and the later tradition: a note.
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