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Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"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.
"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 VirginiaBinding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/17/1992
ISBN: 9780393308617
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.03w x 1.15d
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