The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition / Edition 1

by Ian Watt, W. B. Carnochan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520230699
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/01/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	339
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ian Watt (1917-1999) was Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of English at Stanford University. W. B. Carnochan is Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Stanford, where he was a colleague of Ian Watt's for many years.

Table of Contents

                
 Preface                                        
 I    Realism and the novel form                    
 II   The reading public and the rise of the novel                                      
 III   Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel                                      
 IV   Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders                
 V    Love and the novel: Pamela                  
VI    Private experience and the novel               
VII   Richardson as novelist: Clarissa              
VIII  Fielding and the epic theory of the novel                                    
IX    Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones                
X     Realism and the later tradition: a note     
Afterword                                         
Index