The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

ancient antiromance argument aristocratic ideology authority become Brobdingnag Bunyan's Cambridge Cervantes chap character Christian Christopher Hill claim to historicity conservative ideology corruption critical critique culture Daniel Defoe Defoe Defoe's dialectical divine Don Quixote early modern empiricism England English epistemological experience extreme skepticism fact faith feudal fiction Fielding's Francis Kirkman genre gentry Gulliver Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels Henry Fielding honor Houyhnhnms human idem John Jonathan Jonathan Swift Jonathan Wild King Lady lineage literary London Lord marriage mediation moral mutability naive empiricism narration nature nobility novel Oxford Pamela picaresque Pilgrim's Progress plot political Prince problem progressive ideology Protestant Puritan questions of truth questions of virtue Quixote's readers reform Revolution Richardson rise Robinson Crusoe romance Royal Samuel Richardson Sancho secularization sense seventeenth century Shamela social Society spiritual status inconsistency story Swift things tion traditional trans travel narrative true history University Press voyages younger