History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe by Robert Mayer, Mayer Robert

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

Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature a

Robert Mayer, Mayer Robert

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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...

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