Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

by Patricia Meyer Spacks

Book Overview

A celebratory history and appreciation of the varied, wildly experimental nature of fiction in eighteenth-century England

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...

• 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"