The Rise of the Novel Studies on Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding

The Rise of the Novel, one of the most influential, most quoted and discussed classics of the field of literary history and criticism in the twentieth century, is finally in Turkish. Ian Watt offers very original and in-depth interpretations of the books of three leading novelists of eighteenth-century English literature, Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, and explores the important roles of these novelists in the formation of the modern novel tradition. Offering one of the outstanding examples of contextual criticism, he evaluates the novels he discusses by relating them to significant turning points in Western history: He examines what role "external" factors such as the rise of the middle classes and economic individualism, philosophical innovations in the seventeenth century, and complex changes in the social position of women played in shaping the modern novel imagination.



Number of Pages: 376

Year of Printing: 2007


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2007

Number of Pages: 376

Language Turkish