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The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.
In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.
In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.
Price: $30.95
Pages: 339
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
01 June 2001
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520230699
Format: Paperback
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Ian Watt (1917-1999) was Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of English at Stanford University. W. B. Carnochan is Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Stanford, where he was a colleague of Ian Watt's for many years.
Preface
I Realism and the novel form
II The reading public and the rise of the novel
III Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel
IV Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders
V Love and the novel: Pamela
VI Private experience and the novel
VII Richardson as novelist: Clarissa
VIII Fielding and the epic theory of the novel
IX Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones
X Realism and the later tradition: a note
Afterword
Index