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if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Early novels in English See the article First novel in English. Romantic novel The Romantic period saw the first flowering of the English novel. The...


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The New York Observer
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on \'d4Real Life\'d5
8/20/2006: 1,128 words, approx. 4 pages
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory, or buried deep in the “text”—that sunless realm where books are forgotten, readers irrelevant and authors dead. Split into feuding factions, the high priests of...
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The New York Observer
Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on 'Real Life'
8/20/2006: 1,129 words, approx. 4 pages
Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative? Its devotees were in the grip of implacable theory, or buried deep in the “text”—that sunless realm where books are forgotten, readers irrelevant and authors dead. Split into feuding factions, the high priests of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Paula R. Backscheider
9,459 words, approx. 32 pages
In the essay that follows, Backscheider examines some methods of influencing other people, particularly men, and bringing about change that female authors of early novels gave to their female characters.
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Critical Essay by William Warner
8,871 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Warner charts the novel's progress from "scandalous" newcomer on the literary landscape to a serious, legitimate form sanctioned by the efforts of such key figures as Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and Clara Reeve.
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Lennard J. Davis
8,300 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Davis argues that early novelists put forth concepts of fiction that implicitly sought to disarm a public that paradoxically both demanded fiction and looked down upon "untruthful" tales.
 


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