The Rise of the Novel by Ian P Watt

The Rise of the Novel by Ian P Watt

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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ISBN 13	9780701207915
ISBN 10	0701207914
Title	The Rise of the Novel
Author	Ian P Watt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1987-09-17
Number of pages	320
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