History and the Early English Novel
Subtitle: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521604475
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--18th century--History and cr; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In 1659 Peter Heylyn, an Anglican divine and well-known historian, launched an attack on Thomas Fuller's Church-History of Britain that occupied the better part of two books by Heylyn and elicited a lengthy reply by Fuller in his own defense.