Author | : J. Paul Hunter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780393308617 |
"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