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Vincent Newey, 1 October 1987
The Origins of the English Novel, 1660-1740
by Michael McKeon.
Johns Hopkins, 530 pp., £21.25, April 1987,0 8018 3291 8 Show More
by Michael McKeon.
Johns Hopkins, 530 pp., £21.25, April 1987,
“... Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel,* which Michael McKeon energetically bids to transcend, gave us, whatever else, the clear image and serviceable concept: ‘formal realism’, the growth of ‘the middle class’, secularised Protestant Man proudly bearing the standard of an aggressive ‘individualism’ – on Crusoe’s hard-won island as in the socioeconomic landscape of contemporary England ... ”
