{"product_id":"books-novel-definitions-by-cheryl-l-nixon","title":"Novel Definitions","description":"\u003cp\u003eNovel Definitionscaptures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel was accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The anthology collects over 135 primary sources that chart the long eighteenth century's interpretation of the novel. These sources--many newly-discovered--include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitionsbrings together authors' prefatory analyses of their work; essayists' debates concerning the novel's formal qualities; commentators' questions concerning the novel's cultural position, including whether or not women and children should read novels; reviewers' definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians' first attempts to write the history of the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53505843757329,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781551116464.jpg?v=1778102905","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-novel-definitions-by-cheryl-l-nixon","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}