The Rise of the Novel (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230251838 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great resource Ordinary Mom Anyone interested in the concept of the rise of the novel and especially a quick, pithy and insightful summary of various schools of criticism should read this book.
Its judgements about the main lines of this criticism, and its assessments of the issues at stake, are judicious and convincing.' - Shaun Regan, Queen's University Belfast, UK'The 'rise of the novel' is one of the most contested areas in modern criticism - there's little agreement on what constitutes a 'novel' and when, how, even whether it 'rose.' Mountains of scholarship have been published on the subject, and pity the poor beginner who has to make sense of it. Nicholas Seager deserves thanks for this gentle but rigorous introduction to the arguments over the eighteenth-century novel, a learned, wide-ranging, and scrupulously fair overview of the major accounts of the form.' - Jack Lynch, Rutgers Unive
Nicholas Seager:surveys major criticism on authors such as Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Jane Austencovers a range of critical approaches and topics including feminism, historicism, postcolonialism and print culturedemonstrates how critical work is interrelated, allowing readers to discern trends in the critical conversation.Approachable and stimulating, this is an invaluable introduction for anyone studying the origins of the novel and the surrounding body of scholarship.. Why have scholars located the