History and the early English novel : matters of fact from Bacon to Defoe /
This new study of the origins of the English novel argues that the novel emerged from historical writing. Examining historical writers and forms frequently neglected by earlier scholars, Robert Mayer shows that in the seventeenth century historical discourse embraced not only "history" in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;
33. |
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Pace
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PR858.H5 M39 1997 |
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Vassar College
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PR858.H5M39 1997 |
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USMA West Point
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PR858.H5 M39 1997 |
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