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History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe

By Robert Mayer

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521563771, 9780521563772
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17431942 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Pages
264\261
Time added
2013-08-25 23:05:03

Description

Robert Mayer argues that the modern English novel emerged from historical writing. Historical discourse in the seventeenth century embraced not only "history" in its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic, gossip, and marvels. Mayer shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe--unlike those of his contemporaries Aphra Behn and Delarivière Manley--were read, in their own time, as history, making connections that later novelists developed. This new study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the origins of the novel in Britain.

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