03520cam a22003738i 4500999001700000001000900017003000900026005001700035008004100052020002600093040003300119043001200152082002100164100003900185245006200224250001900286264004700305300002900352336002600381337002800407338002700435490002200462504005100484505061900535520144601154650006502600650006802665653001902733655002402752776018202776906004502958942001203003952013103015  c28497d2846819433626EG-ScBUE20200717145524.0170109s2017    nju    f b    001 0 eng d  a9781118621103 (paper)  aDLCbengerdacDLCdEG-ScBUE  ae-uk---04a823.509bRIC2221 aRichter, David H.,d1945-eauthor.10aReading the eighteenth-century novel /cDavid H. Richter.  aFirst edition. 1aHoboken :bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,c2017.  aviiii, 240 pagesc24 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aReading the novel  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.8 aMachine generated contents note:  Acknowledgments viii 1 The World That Made the Novel 1 2 Oroonoko (1688) 34 3 Moll Flanders (1722) 51 4 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740) 66 5 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749) 81 6 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759-1767) 100 7 Evelina: The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1778) 117 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 131 9 Things As They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) 151 10 Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) 171 11 Emma (1815) 189 12 The World the Novel Made 213 Selected Further Reading 226 Index 000.  a"This book about reading the English novel during the "long eighteenth century," a stretch of time that, in the generally accepted ways of breaking up British literary history into discrete periods for university courses, begins some time after the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and ends around 1830, before the reign of Queen Victoria. At the beginning of this period, the novel can hardly be said to exist, and writing prose fiction is a mildly disreputable literary activity. Around 1720, Daniel Defoe's fictional autobiographies spark continuations and imitations, and in the 1740s, with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding's novels begin what is perceived as "a new kind of writing." By the end of the period, with Jane Austen and Walter Scott, the novel has not only come into existence, it has developed into a more-or-less respectable genre, and in fact publishers have begun to issue series of novels (edited by Walter Scott and by Anna Barbauld, among others) that establish for that time, if not necessarily for ours, a canon of the English novel. With the decline of the English drama and the almost complete eclipse of the epic, the novel has become by default the serious literary long form, on its way to becoming by the mid-nineteenth century, with Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot, the pre-eminent genre of literature. This chapter will consider how and why the novel came to be when it did"--cProvided by publisher. 7aEnglish fictiony18th centuryxHistory and criticism.2BUEsh 7aBooks and readingzGreat BritainxHistoryy18th century.2BUEsh  bGGENcJuly2020  vReading book93423208iOnline version:aRichter, David H., 1945- author.tReading the eighteenth-century novelbFirst edition.dHoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017z9781118621134w(DLC) 2017000756  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBB  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc2NDd2020-07-17ePurchasel0o823.509 RICp000049426r2025-07-15 00:00:00w2020-07-17yBB