The Rise Of The Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding by Ian Watt (Paperback, 2000)

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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 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 assemble round his novelists the ideas and facts among which they worked'V. S. Pritchett, NEW STATESMAN

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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780712664271
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Book TitleThe Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
AuthorIan Watt
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2000
Number of Pages320 Pages

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Item Width134mm
Item Weight345g

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