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History and the Early English Novel : Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
History and the Early English Novel Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe - Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Author: Robert Mayer
Robert Mayer argues that the modern English novel emerged from historical writing. Historical discourse in the seventeenth century embraced not only "history" in its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic, gossip, and marvels. Mayer shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe--unlike those of his contemporaries Aphra Behn and Delarivière Manl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521563772
ISBN-10: 0521563771
Publication Date: 4/13/1997
Pages: 260
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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