TY - BOOK AU - Watt, Ian TI - The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding SN - 9780712664271 U1 - 823 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Pimlico KW - English fiction KW - Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 KW - Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 KW - Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 KW - Criticism and interpretation N1 - Realism and the novel form -- The reading public and the rise of the novel -- Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel -- Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders -- Love and the novel: Pamela -- Private experience and the novel -- Richardson as novelist: Clarissa -- Fielding and the epic theory of the novel -- Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones -- Realism and the later tradition: a note ER -