“We should try to shed any notions about the progressive ‘rise’ or ‘development’ of the novel genre. It is, perhaps, more fruitful to think about the texts discussed under this term as a series of interlocking genres, fo

“We should try to shed any notions about the progressive ‘rise’ or ‘development’ of the novel genre. It is, perhaps, more fruitful to think about the texts discussed under this term as a series of interlocking genres, forms and modes, all of which coalesce in various ways in different texts”. Examine this claim about the eighteenth-century novel with reference to the work of Henry Mackenzie , Man of Feeling” and Samuel Richardson “ Pamela”.
Writers featured in Units 15-19 & 21.