Before Novels

The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-century English Fiction

• Author(s): J. Paul Hunter,
• Publisher: Norton
• Pages: 421
• ISBN_10: 0393308618
  ISBN_13: 9780393308617
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Books & Reading , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , Social Science / Popular Culture ,

Description:... "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