The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding by Ian P. Watt

The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Ian P. Watt

319 pages first pub 1957 (view editions) user-added

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"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 scho...

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