The Rise of the Novel
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The Rise of the Novel
By Ian WattEnglish Thought in the Eighteenth Cen- Taylor , Jeremy , Rule and Exercises of tury , 35 , 275 n .; on Fielding , 283 Holy Living and Holy Dying , 217 Sterne , Laurence , 20 , 21 , 143 , 219 , Taylor , John Tinnon , Early Opposi280 ...
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The Rise of the Novel
By Nicholas SeagerWillard R. Trask (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953). Paula R. Backscheider, A Being More Intense: A Study of the Prose Works of Bunyan, Swift, and Defoe (New York: AMS Press, 1984). Donald Ball, Samuel Richardson's Theory ...
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding
By Ian WattRichard Baxter, for example, whom Defoe had read and whose religious position was very similar to his own, made plainness his supreme aim; and it was plainness of a quasi-scientific kind, since his purpose was to bring home to his ...
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
By Ian WattPraise 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,...
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The Rise Of The Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
By Ian WattThis is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and...
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding
By Ian P WattThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.