Origins and Development of the Novel Before 1740 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Historical Background
The English-speaking world has long considered 1740, the year in which Samuel Richardson’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded was published, pivotal in the development of the novel, a broad term that, for several centuries, has been applied to many different forms of long fiction. Richardson’s first novel remains a convenient landmark in the history of the form because, at least in England, it went further than any previous work in exploring an individual...
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