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Comp. MLN  \nMLR  \nMP  \nN & Q  \nPMLA  \nPQ  \nProc. Amer.  \nRES  \nSP  \nJournal of English Literary History Huntington Library Quarterly  \nJournal of English and Germanic Philology Psychology Journal of Comparative Psychology Modern Language Notes  \nModern Language Review  \nModern Philology Notes and Queries  \nPublications of the Modern Language Association of America  \nPhilological Quarterly  \nAntiquarian Soc. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society  \nReview of English Studies Studies in Philology  \n-6-  \nPREFACE  \nIN 1938 I began a study of the relation between the growth of the reading public and the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England; and in 1947 it eventually took shape as a Fellowship Dissertation for St. John's College, Cambridge. Two wider problems, however, remained unresolved. Defoe, Richardson and Fielding were no doubt affected by the changes in the reading public of their time; but their works are surely more profoundly conditioned by the new climate of social and moral experience which they and their eighteenth-century readers shared. Nor could one say much about how this was connected with the emergence of the new literary form without deciding what the Novel's distinctive literary features were and are.  \nThese are the problems with which I am here concerned, and they are so large that their treatment is necessarily selective. I have not, for example, made more than incidental reference to the earlier traditions of fiction, nor to the more immediate precursors and contemporaries of my central figures; equally regrettably, my treatment of Fielding is briefer than that of Defoe and Richardson--since most of the new elements of the novel had by then appeared, there seemed no need to go beyond an analysis of how he combined them with the classical literary tradition. Finally, although my main effort has been to elucidate  \nin a fairly systematic fashion the enduring connections between the distinctive literary qualities of the novel and those of the society in which it began and flourished, I have not limited myself to such considerations: partly because I also wanted to give a general critical assessment of Defoe, Richardson and Fielding; and partly because my studies had confronted me with the monitory example of how that rigorously systematic thinker Walter Shandy would 'twist and torture everything in nature to support his hypothesis'.  \nI am obliged to William Kimber and Co. for permission to  \nquote an extract from Peter Quennell's Mayhew's London; also to the editors and publishers of the Review of English Studies and of Essays in Criticism for allowing me to use, especially in chapters I, III and VIII, material which originally appeared  \n-7-  \nin their pages. I gladly acknowledge the skill and devotion which Cecilia Scurfield and Elizabeth Walser exhibited both as typistsand cryptographers; and I am deeply grateful for the financial and other assistance which I have received as Scholar, research student and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and","cbCairHCE5RVYuYq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairHCE5RVYuYq","pdf",2106606,334,"English","# Preface\n# I Realism and the novel form\n# II The reading public and the rise of the novel\n# III Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel\n# IV Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders\n# V Love and the novel: Pamela\n# VI Private experience and the novel\n# VII Richardson as novelist: Clarissa\n# VIII Fielding and the epic theory of the novel\n# IX Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones\n# X Realism and the later tradition: a note","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of Ian Watt’s study?\",\"answer\":\"It explores the relationship between the growth of the reading public and the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England, and how broader social and moral experience conditioned its distinctive literary features.\"},{\"question\":\"Which authors receive the main attention in the book?\",\"answer\":\"Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding are the central figures, discussed through representative works such as Moll Flanders, Pamela, Clarissa, and Tom Jones.\"},{\"question\":\"What key aspects of the novel are examined across the chapters?\",\"answer\":\"The book investigates the novel’s form and realism, the role of individualism, private experience, love, and how later realist traditions connect back to earlier literary theory.\"}]","The Rise of the Novel - Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding | PDF",1789986476,514]