Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Hunter, J Paul
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	08/01/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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