On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the T
Aimed at students and interested readers of prose fiction, this text offers an account of the creation and early development of the novel. In the first chapter, Hammond (U. of Nottingham) and Regan (Q
Hammond and Regan advance a new cultural reading of the formation of the British novel. Rejecting a teleological narrative of the genre's rise, the study presents a dynamic picture of the emergence of
