The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition

Ian Watt; W B Carnochan
University of California Press
 9780520230699
0-520-23069-8

Praise for the new (2001) edition: "Ian Watt's "The Rise of the Novel "still seems to me far and away the best book ever written on the early English novel--wise, humane, beautifully organized and expressed,.

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one of the absolutely indispensable critical works in modern literary scholarship. And W. B. Carnochan's brilliant introduction does a wonderful job of showing how Watt's book came into being and changed for good the way the novel in general is taught and understood."--Max Byrd, author of "Grant: A Novel" "Ian Watt's "The Rise of the Novel "remains the single indispensable, absolutely essential book for students of the 18th-century novel."--John Richetti, author of "The English Novel in History: 1700-1780" Praise for the original edition: "A remarkable book. . . . A pioneer work in the application of modern sociology to literature."--"Manchester Guardian" "An outstanding contribution to the field of historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge. . . . The author has set the 'rise of the novel' as a new literary genre in the social context of eighteenth-century England, with emphasis on the predominant middle-class features of the period."--"American Journal of Sociology"