The Rise Of The Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding - Softcover

Watt, Ian

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9780712664271: The Rise Of The Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

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ISBN 10: 0712664270 ISBN 13: 9780712664271

Publisher: Pimlico, 2000

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 320 Publisher: Pimlico In this influential study the 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 century. complex changes in the social position of women: these are some of the factors underlying an age which produced the authors of ROBINSON CRUSOE. PAMELA and TOM JONES. 'An important. compendious work of inquiring scholarship ... alive with ideas ... An academic critic who in lively and suggestive detail is able to assembl...

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"A major contribution to the subject, in some respects the most brilliant that has appeared...Every page of Dr Watt's admirably written book repays study, as enlivening and enriching as the works themselves" (Times Educational Supplement)

"An important, compendious work of inquiring scholarship...alive with ideas...An academic critic who in lively and suggestive detail is able to assemble round his novelists the ideas and facts among which they worked" (V.S. Pritchett New Statesman)

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A classic and THE standard text on the origins of the modern novel -'A major contribution to the subject, in some respects the most brilliant that has appeared. ' TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT

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