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The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the... read more
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- Samuel Richardson: Add a description of this character.
- Defoe
- Clarissa
- Lovelace
- Pamela
- Tom Jones
- Robinson Crusoe
- Sterne
- Sophia
- Dr. Johnson
- Smollett
- Jane Austen
- Henry James
- Anna Howe
- Joseph Andrews
- Locke
- Bunyan
- Allworthy
- Charles Grandison
- Steele
- Mckillop
- Aristotle
- Blackwell
- Mary Wortley Montagu
- Harlowe
- Goldsmith
- Roxana
- Virgil
- Milton
- Leslie Stephen
- Solmes
- E. M. Forster
- Don Quixote
- Blifil
- Rousseau
- Sidney
- Horace
- Colonel Jacque
- Mrs. Sinclair
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 820
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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