Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

by Patricia Meyer Spacks

Book Overview

In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. "Novel Beginnings" departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300110316
• ISBN13: 9780300110319
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"