Jeff Bursey's Reviews > The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

This is a thorough, expansive, focused view of the continuation of the development of the novel form. Forget what you learned in school or university or college that the novel began in england in the mid-18th century. Moore's earlier book, The Novel: An alternative History, Beginnings to 1600, put that notion deep under the ground. Here he expands the exploration of the emerging novel in europe, asia, the u.s. and england. Definitely worth getting for anyone interested in seeing where writers today may have gotten some inspiration.