...Scott Black This essay argues that modern, realist ways of reading fail to satisfy fully their own claims about the novel as a genre self-consciously located in history. Rather, novels cycle through the kinds of narrative named by Ian Watt and Northrop Frye and show how each is necessary...

...Margaret Cohen From Ian Watt's reading of Robinson Crusoe , novel critics valuing realism as the highest expression of the form have tried to domesticate adventure fiction and the rambling dispositions of its protagonists. In contrast, this essay argues that such rambling explores a foundational...

...Mary Helen McMurran Nearly a quarter century after Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities , the novel seems to be less a national subject than a flexible citizen. But before Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel , most novel histories took the mobility of prose fictions for granted; writers had long...

...Sarah Tindal Kareem This essay reimagines the relationship between Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and David Hume's skeptical philosophy, a relationship previously defined by Ian Watt's suggestion in The Rise of the Novel (1957) that Hume's emphasis upon man's essentially social nature...

...Jason Solinger Norton Brian Michael , Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment ( Lanham : Bucknell UP , 2012 ) , pp. 168, cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 More than half a century after Ian Watt's...

... the reader) already knows” (3). Slaughter provides the serendipitous prehistory of theorizations of the early English novel and the discourse of human rights: “Like mythical twins separated at birth by the geographical accidents of British imperialism, two Watts—Ian and Alan—found them- selves...

... to Novostroika . Durham : Duke UP , 1993 . Lukács Georg . Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Bostock Anna . Cambridge, MA : MIT P , 1971 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding...

..., and finally removing the blindfold after locking me up behind heavy doors in the country's biggest maximum-security prison. Plenary talk at Society for Novel Studies Conference at the University of Utah, April 4–6, 2014. This article is based on the Ian Watt lecture that I gave at Stanford's Center...

... because of that change. To mount this argument, McMurran revisits Ian Watt’s account of the rise of the English novel and exposes the contradiction informing his study of the novel’s origins. As she puts it, “Either the novel form, which is [as Watt claims] wedded to particularity in its...

... . McKeon Michael . The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740 . Anniversary ed . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1987 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. 1957 . 2nd American ed . Berkeley : U of California P , 2001 . Whitman Walt...

... expression of modern middle-class interests (which Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel would have us believe). This thoroughgoing abandonment of what were canonical theories of the novel until, say, twenty years ago is tantamount to saying that those earlier ways of reading the novel, as well...

... back to Michel Foucault and Ian Watt, who have tracked the dual development of economic discourse and modern literature (particularly the novel). Poovey has as thorough a command of all the texts and genres she deals with as any of her predecessors. Part of the originality of Genres...

... Franco . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2006 . Watt Ian . The Rise of the Novel . Berkeley : U of California P , 1957 . Reviews Maritime Novelism MARGARET COHEN, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010...

... . Zibaldone di pensieri . 1898 . Ed. Solmi Sergio and Solmi Raffaella . Turin : Einaudi , 1977 . Scott Walter . Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama . London : Whittaker , 1834 . Watt Ian P. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding...

... the novel rose as well as what the novel is or does, but there is surprising consensus on a number of key points. First is the novel’s importance in the formation of the modern, post-Enlight- enment individual. The trajectory of this line runs from Ian Watt, who claims that the novel begins “from...

...” in the eighteenth century. Even before Ian Watt’s Rise of the Novel, J. H. Hexter’s 1950 essay “The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England” pointed out that historians examining any period in English his- tory from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries have found a rising bourgeoisie. Hexter therefore...

... is a study of the eighteenth-century novel, the story of which has been told and retold any number of times in the apparently infinite wake of Ian Watt’s classic The Rise of the Novel. As Macpherson points out, virtually all accounts of that rise link the novel with the “core values of modernity...

... been associated primarily with the descriptive. Nearly all readers of Schmidgen's book will recall Ian Watt's account of the "formlessness" of the novels of Defoe and Richardson in The Rise of the Novel, and many will know Everett Zimerman's more recent historicization of the figural components...

...: The Secret Agent: A Casebook. Ed. Ian Watt. London: Macmillan, 1969. 166–69 . Sprott W. J. H. “Forster as a Humanist.” Aspects of E. M. Forster: Essays and Recollections Written for His Ninetieth Birthday, January 1, 1969 . Ed. Stallybrass Oliver . New York : Harcourt , 1969 . 73 – 80...

... is not just that it provides an expanded context for framing our understanding of the novel's cultural work; it is, rather, its forceful intervention in discussions that have persisted in orienting accounts of the novel, in one way or another, around Ian Watt's study and its Anglocentric claims. The Age...