| Title : | The rise of the novel : studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Ian Watt, Author |
| Publisher: | Pimlico |
| Publication Date: | 1957 |
| Pagination: | 319 p. |
| Size: | 23 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-7126-6427-1 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical refrences and index |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
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| Class number: | 823 |
| Abstract: | "The rise of the novel"- In this study, Ian Watts traces the genesis and development of the literary form, the novel. He investigates the reasons why the three main 18th-century novelists (Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding) wrote in the way they did. |
| Contents note: | Abbreviations used; Preface; 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; Index. |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13420 |
