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The origins of the English novel, 1600-1740
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis may well be the most important study of the development of prose fiction in England since Ian Watt's classic Rise of the Novel (1957), on which it builds. Like Watt's study, it examines ... Read full review
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QUESTIONS OF TRUTH | 20 |
Romance as a Simple Abstraction | 26 |
The TwelfthCentury Renaissance | 33 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 |
| Author | Michael McKeon |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801832918, 9780801832918 |
| Length | 529 pages |
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