The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the...
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The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520230699 (0520230698)
Publish date: June 4th 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 339
Edition language: English
This is Dale Spender talking about this book: ‘He devotes three hundred pages to male novelists and restricts his assessment of females to a single sentence: ‘‘The majority of eighteenth century novels were actually written by women.’’ This is the jacket blurb for Watt's book:"The Rise of the Novel...
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