The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
- ISBN-10
- 0520013182
- ISBN-13
- 9780520013186
- Series
- The Rise of the Novel
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1957
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Author
- Ian Watt
Description
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: 1700-1780"
Praise 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 novel' as a new literary genre in the social context of eighteenth-century England, with emphasis on the predominant middle-class features of the period."--"American Journal of Sociology"
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Other editions
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- 2021-09-09
- 326 pages
- Paperback
- Hassell Street Press
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- 2015-10-29
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Random House