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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 STATESMANProduct Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780712664271
eBay Product ID (ePID)90861748
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Book TitleThe Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
AuthorIan Watt
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2000
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Item Height216mm
Item Width134mm
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Title_AuthorIan Watt
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom