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1661?-1731

The rise of the novel

studies in DeFoe, Richardson, and Fielding
1964
This book is an outstanding contribution to the field of historical sociology and the sociology of knowledge. ... In three hundred well-written and carefully documented pages 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 predominent middle-class features of the period.
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