Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition / Watt/Carnochan; ed. by Ian Watt, W. B. Carnochan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watt/Carnochan, Author.

Contributor:

Carnochan, W. B., Editor.

Watt, Ian, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.) : 1 b/w illustration

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2001]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS USED

PREFACE

CHAPTER I Realism and the Novel Form

CHAPTER II The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel

CHAPTER III 'Robinson Crusoe'', Individualism and the Novel

CHAPTER IV Defoe as Novelist: ' Moll Flanders'

CHAPTER V Love and the Novel: ' Pamela '

CHAPTER VI Private Experience and the Novel

CHAPTER VII Richardson as Novelist: ' Clarissa'

CHAPTER VIII Fielding and the Epic Theory of the Novel

CHAPTER IX Fielding as Novelist: ' Tom Jones '

CHAPTER X Realism, and the Later Tradition: a Note

AFTERWORD "A Matter Discutable": The Rise of the Novel

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-35339-0

OCLC:

1419789336