Title: Novel Definitions
Description: "Novel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel is accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The over 135 pieces here, many newly-discovered, include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitions brings together authors' commentary on their work; debates concerning the novel's formal qualities and cultural position, including who should read novels; reviewers' definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians' first attempts to write the history of the novel."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Criticism, great britain, Literature and society, English fiction, History and criticism, Criticism, History, Intellectual life, Roman anglais, Histoire et critique, Critique, Histoire, Littérature et société, Vie intellectuelle, Literary criticism, Anthologies