Birth of the British Novel

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Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all the literary genres we recognise today. It was a golden age of creativity led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, La...

2013
How 18th century novelists such as Defoe and Swift established all our literary genres.(R)
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