TY - BOOK AU - Watt,Ian P. TI - The rise of the novel: studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding SN - 9780470256147 AV - PR851 .W3 U1 - 823.509 PY - 1957/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Defoe, Daniel, KW - Richardson, Samuel, KW - Fielding, Henry, KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism N1 - raise for the new (2001) edition:"Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel still seems to me far and away the best book ever written on the early English novel—wise, ... Parts were interesting but on the whole I'm not a fan of this type of work and wouldn't have purchased a copy if it hadn't been on our recommended reading list ER -