The rise of the novel : studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding /

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Author / Creator:Watt, Ian, 1917-1999
Edition:2nd American ed.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
Description:339 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4472910
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Varying Form of Title:Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
Other authors / contributors:Carnochan, W. B.
ISBN:0520230698
Notes:Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1957.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • I. Realism and the novel form
  • II. The reading public and the rise of the novel
  • III. Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel
  • IV. Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders
  • V. Love and the novel: Pamela
  • VI. Private experience and the novel
  • VII. Richardson as novelist: Clarissa
  • VIII. Fielding and the epic theory of the novel
  • IX. Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones
  • X. Realism and the later tradition: a note
  • Afterword
  • Index