SOURCE: "Licensing Pleasure: Literary History and the Novel in Early Modern Britain," in The Columbia History of the British Novel, edited by John Richetti, Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 1-24.
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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