2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Accounts of the Rise of the Novel
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The Rise of the Novel
Writers were puzzling over the nature and provenance of fiction even as the novel was said to be rising, and the terms on which they conducted the debate continue to resonate with modern critics. This chapter addresses attempts to account for the development and progress of the English novel from the eighteenth century through the Romantic period to Victorian and Edwardian histories of fiction.