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Title: Prefaces to Fiction
Author : Various Authors
Release Date : January 01, 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 150 KB

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The development of the English novel is one of the triumphs of the eighteenth century. Criticism of prose fiction during that period, however, is less impressive, being neither strikingly original nor profound nor usually more than fragmentary. Because the early statements of theory were mostly very brief and are now obscurely buried in rare books, one may come upon the well conceived "program" of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones with some surprise. But if one looks in the right places one will realize that mid-eighteenth century notions about prose fiction had a substantial background in earlier writing.

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