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History and the Early English Novel - Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Hardcover, New)
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History and the Early English Novel - Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
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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 its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic,
gossip, and marvels. Mayer thus explains why Defoe's narratives
were initially read as history. It is the acceptance of the claims
to historicity, the study argues, that differentiates Defoe's
fictions from those of writers like Thomas Deloney and Aphra Behn,
important writers who nevertheless have figured less prominently
than Defoe in discussions of the novel. Mayer ends by exploring the
theoretical implications of the history-fiction connection. His
study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate
about the emergence of what we now call the novel in Britain in the
eighteenth century.
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