The Rise Of The Novel by Ian Watt
In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding - invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. This book explains why these authors wrote in the way that they did, and how the complex changes in society - the emergence of the middle-class and more.
A major contribution to the subject, in some respects the most brilliant that has appeared.. as enlivening and enriching as the works themselves * Times Educational Supplement *
An important, compendious work of inquiring scholarship...alive with ideas -- V S Pritchett * New Statesman *
An important, compendious work of inquiring scholarship...alive with ideas -- V S Pritchett * New Statesman *
Ian Watt (1917-99) was a Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. During the Second World War he worked as a prisoner on the construction of the notorious Burma Railway before turning to the study of English literature. The Rise of the Novel (1957) was the first of a dozen books he wrote and is widely regarded as the seminal work in the study of the novel. His other books include Conrad in the Nineteenth Century (1979), Conrad: Nostromo (1988) and Myths of Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe (1998).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847923851 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847923852 |
| Title | The Rise Of The Novel |
| Author | Ian Watt |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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