English 83200

Spring 2005

Professor David Richter

Secondary Readings

Ian Watt: The Rise of the Novel

Please read chapters 1-3 on “Formal Realism,” the Reading Public, and Economic Individualism, respectively. Sorry, no e-version is available.

Ralph Rader:

“Defoe, Richardson, Joyce, and the Concept of Form in Fiction” is most easily available in my anthology, The Critical Tradition (Bedford Books, 1989), FIRST EDITION. I have loaded onto this site a more or less readable e-version of this essay (apologies for the printer-garbage in these files—it has to do with setting special fonts and nonstandard characters). It’s in three parts, links to parts 2 and 3 are embedded in Part 1.

Part 1 of Rader: "Defoe..."

Rader’s “The Emergence of the Novel in England” and McKeon’s reply to Rader are available on this website at

http://www.qc.edu/ENGLISH/Staff/richter/radermckeon.htm

Catherine Gallagher’s “Nobody’s Story” talk is available on this website at

http://www.qc.edu/ENGLISH/Staff/richter/Gallagher.htm

MORE TO COME ABOUT OTHER BOOKS LATER

Laura Brown

An early version of the introductory chapter of Laura Brown’s 2001 book, Fables of Modernity, is available on this website at:

http://www.qc.edu/ENGLISH/Staff/richter/laurabrown.htm

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