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The Rise of the Novel: Defö, Richardson, Fielding, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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An examination of the emergence of the novel as a dominant literary form in eighteenth-century England, focusing on the formal innovations of Defö, Richardson, and Fielding, Ian Watt's 'rise of the novel' thesis, and the social and material conditions that enabled the new genre.

Inhaltsübersicht

  • Ian Watt's Thesis and Its Contexts
  • Defö and the Novel of Empirical Individualism
  • Richardson and the Epistolary Novel
  • Fielding and the Novel as Epic: Form, Irony, and the Author's Voice
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