
Rise Of The Novel
This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt''s landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.
In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of writi...
This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt''s landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.
In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of writi...