Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780393308617 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str.

J. Paul Hunter

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"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia