Robert Greene. Same old problem--usually calssed as a "romance," but
there's much less agreement about what isn't or is a novel these days.
At 09:39 PM 9/18/2003 +0100, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>Defoe's a lot more fun than many
>
>I've only ever read *about him in wrintings on WS, but wasn't Greene
>(Hughie? Graham? Robert, I think it was Robert) writing prose fictions in
>the late16th century?
>
>................. Utopia..........
>
>L
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: 18 September 2003 18:28
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: print runs
>
>
>| All of Defoe also predates Richardson. And a lot more fun to read.
>|
>| Also Swift.
>|
>| Congreve's Incognita (1692) is pretty awful, but it is prose fiction.
>|
>|
>|
>| Mark
>|
>|
>| At 11:31 AM 9/18/2003 +0200, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>| >The term used by the great majority of critics for Oronooko is 'novella'.
>| >
>| >Wolfgang
>| >
>| >
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>| >>Reply-To: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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>| >>From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>| >>Subject: Re: print runs
>| >>Comments: To: Tony Frazer <[log in to unmask]>
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>| >>
>| >>Oroonoko, anyone?
>| >>
>| >>Mark
>| >>
>| >>At 09:26 AM 9/18/2003 +0100, Tony Frazer wrote:
>| >>>>Wasn't the first English novel Pamela?
>| >>>>--
>| >>>
>| >>>Clarissa, surely?
>| >>>
>| >>>Tony
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