The Rise of the Novel

The Rise of the Novel by Nicholas Seager

This guide explores the dominant methodologies, theories and debates surrounding the emergence of the novel during the eighteenth century. Covering key criticism on authors such as Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Austen, the emphasis is on how critical work is interrelated, allowing readers to discern trends in the critical conversation.

'Each chapter lucidly summarizes important critical texts as well as writers of the time, including Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Apra BehnThe author offers a comprehensive yet concise overview of the rise of the novel that will benefit students and teachers of English literature. Recommended reading.' - Choice 'A remarkably comprehensive, lucid, and well-organised account of 'rise of the novel' criticism from the later seventeenth century to the present. Its judgements about the main lines of this criticism, and its assessments of the issues at stake, are judicious and convincing.' - Shaun Regan, Queen's University Belfast, UK 'The 'rise of the novel' is one of the most contested areas in modern criticism - there's little agreement on what constitutes a 'novel' and when, how, even whether it 'rose.' Mountains of scholarship have been published on the subject, and pity the poor beginner who has to make sense of it. Nicholas Seager deserves thanks for this gentle but rigorous introduction to the arguments over the eighteenth-century novel, a learned, wide-ranging, and scrupulously fair overview of the major accounts of the form.' - Jack Lynch, Rutgers University, USA

NICHOLAS SEAGER is Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780230251830
ISBN 10	0230251838
Title	The Rise of the Novel
Author	Nicholas Seager
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2012-10-03
Number of pages	240
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