The Rise of the Novel

Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Author: Ian P. Watt
ISBN: 9780520230699

Praise for the new (2001) edition:"Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel still seems to me far and away the best book ever written on the early English novel--wise, humane, beautifully organized and expressed, one of the absolutely indispensable critical works in modern literary scholarship. And W. B. Carnochan's brilliant introduction does a wonderful job of showing how Watt's book came into being and changed for good the way the novel in general is taught and understood."--Max Byrd, author of Grant: A Novel"Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel remains the single indispensable, absolutely essential book for students of the 18th-century novel."--John Richetti, author of The English Novel in History: 1700-1780Praise for the original edition:"A remarkable book. . . . A pioneer work in the application of modern sociology to literature."--Manchester Guardian"An outstanding contribution to the field of historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge. . . . The author has set the 'rise of the nov

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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