Author:
Orr, Leah, author.
Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Descriptionviii, 336 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Note:Defining the "novel": eighteenth-century concepts of fiction -- Fiction and the book trade -- Authors and anonymous publication -- Reprints of earlier English fiction -- Foreign fiction in English translation -- Fiction with purpose -- Fiction for entertainment -- Conclusion: did the novel rise?.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.