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The Rise Of The Novel
eBook - Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
ISBN/EAN: 9781446475515
Umbreit-Nr.: 6459929
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 320 S., 0.35 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 30.04.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>In this influential study, Ian Watt traces the genesis and development of the most popular of all literary forms, the novel. In his penetrating and original readings of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, he investigates the reasons why the three main eighteenth-century novelist wrote in the way they did - a way resulting ultimately in the modern novel of the present day.</p><p>The rise of the middle classes and of economic individualism, the philosophical innovations of the seventeenth century, complex changes in the social position of women: these are some of the factors underlying an age which produced the authors of<i>Robinson Crusoe, Pamela</i>and<i>Tom Jones.</i></p>
- Autorenportrait
- Ian Watt was Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. He served as Chairman of the English Department (1968-71), and of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature (1977-80), and was Director of the Stanford Humanities Centre from 1980 to 1985. His books include<i>Conrad in the Nineteenth Century</i>(1979),<i>Conrad: Nostromo</i>(1988) and<i>Myths of Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe</i>(1998). Professor Watt died in 1999.
- Schlagzeile
- A classic and <i>the</i> standard text on the origins of the modern novel.