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1、THERISEOFTHENOVELStudiesinDefoe,RichardsonandFieldingbyIANWATTUNIVERSITYOFCALIFORNIAPRESSBerkeleyandLosAngeles-3-Firstpublishedin1957byChattoandWindus,Ltd.,London,EnglandFirstAmericanEdition,1957UNIVERSITYOFCALIFORNIAPRESS,BerkeleyandLosAngeles,CaliforniaISBN0-520-01318-2paperISB
2、N0-520-04656-0cloth131415-4-CONTENTSPrefacePage7IRealismandthenovelform9IIThereadingpublicandtheriseofthenovel35IIIRobinsonCrusoe,individualismandthenovel60IVDefoeasnovelist:MollFlanders93VLoveandthenovel:Pamela135VIPrivateexperienceandthenovel174VIIRichardsonasnovelist:Clarissa2
3、08VIIIFieldingandtheepictheoryofthenovel239IXFieldingasnovelist:TomJones260XRealismandthelatertradition:anote290Index303-5-ABBREVIATIONSUSED1ELHJournalofEnglishLiteraryHistoryHLQ>HuntingtonLibraryQuarterlyJEGPJournalofEnglishandGermanicPhilologyJ.Comp.PsychologyJournalofComparati
4、vePsychologyMLNModernLanguageNotesMLRModernLanguageReviewMPModernPhilologyN&QNotesandQueriesPublicationsoftheModernLanguageAssociationPMLAofAmericaPQPhilologicalQuarterlyAntiquarianSoc.ProceedingsoftheAmericanProc.Amer.AntiquarianSocietyRESReviewofEnglishStudiesSPStudiesinPhilolo
5、gy-6-PREFACEIN1938Ibeganastudyoftherelationbetweenthegrowthofthereadingpublicandtheemergenceofthenovelineighteenth-centuryEngland;andin1947iteventuallytookshapeasaFellowshipDissertationforSt.John'sCollege,Cam-bridge.Twowiderproblems,however,remainedunresolved.Defoe,RichardsonandF
6、ieldingwerenodoubtaffectedbythechangesinthereadingpublicoftheirtime;buttheirworksaresurelymoreprofoundlyconditionedbythenewclimateofsocialandmoralexperiencewhichtheyandtheireighteenth-centuryreadersshared.Norcouldonesaymuchabouthowthiswasconnectedwiththeemergenceofthenewliteraryf
7、ormwithoutdecidingwhattheNovel'sdistinctiveliteraryfeatureswereandare.ThesearetheproblemswithwhichIamhereconcerned,andtheyaresolargethattheirtreatmentisnecessarilyselective.Ihavenot,forexample,mademorethanincidentalreferencetotheearliertraditionsoffiction,nortothemoreimmediatepre
8、-cursorsandcontemporariesofmycentralfigu