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Paperback History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe Book

ISBN: 0521604478

ISBN13: 9780521604475

History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Series)

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Robert Mayer argues that the modern English novel emerged from historical writing. Historical discourse in the seventeenth century embraced not only history in its modern sense, but also fiction, polemic, gossip, and marvels. Mayer shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe--unlike those of his contemporaries Aphra Behn and Delarivi?re Manley--were read, in their own time, as history, making connections that later novelists developed. This new study...

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