English Novel, Vol I, The av Richard W. F. Kroll

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<I>The English Novel, Volume I:1700 to Fielding</I> collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important critical speculations, and the eighteenth-century novel has been at the centre of new approaches both to the novel and to the period between 1700 and 1750. <BR><BR>Richard Kroll''s introduction seeks to frame the contributions by reference to the most significant critical discussions. These include: the question of whether and how we can talk about the ''rise'' of the novel; the vexed question of what might constitute <I>a novel</I>; the relationship between the novel and possibly competing genres such as history or the romance; the relationship between early male writers like Defoe and popular novels by women in the early eighteenth century; the general ideological role played by novels