Novel Beginnings: Patricia Spacks sku-28322405 Hardcover

In Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, Patricia Spacks examines the varied forms English novels took before nineteenth-century conventions were established. Written for general readers, the hardcover discusses Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy alongside Sarah Fielding's The Cry and Jane Barker's A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies.

Spacks considers forms including providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories and Gothic romances. She argues that eighteenth-century fiction was more than a precursor to the nineteenth-century realistic novel. This Yale Guides to English Literature title is listed under All Manuals & Guides as sku-28322405.