SOURCE: "From Arthurian Romance to Richardson," in The Development of The English Novel, The Macmillan Company, 1923, pp. 22-5.
In the following excerpt, first published in 1899 and reprinted in 1923, Cross summarizes the course of the English novel from its roots in the seventeenth century—in the French romance, religious and social commentary, diary, biography, and character sketch—to the characteristically "realist" English novel that emerged in the mid-eighteenth century.
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