History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe by Mayer, Robert

History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521604475)

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History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe by Mayer, Robert

History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe

$53.00
History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe by Mayer, Robert

History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe

$53.00
Format: Paperback
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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 Manley--were read, in their own time, as history, making connections that later novelists developed. This new study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the origins of the novel in Britain.

Author: Robert Mayer,Mayer Robert
ISBN-10: 0521604478
ISBN-13: 9780521604475
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2004
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

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