The rise of the novel:

Watt, Ian, 1917-1999.

The rise of the novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. by Ian Watt. - 2nd American ed. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001. - 319 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

978-99935199936


Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 --Criticism and interpretation.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 --Criticism and interpretation.
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 --Criticism and interpretation.


English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century

PR 851 / .W3 2001
© Customized & Maintained by Eunice Ngesa