Author : J. Paul Hunter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393308617
Book Description
"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia