num_pages: 339
description: 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 his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.
language: English
title: The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
titlecomplete: The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding
genres: British Literature, History, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic
ratings_count: 896
publisher: University of California Press