Article: Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 and Speaking in Hunger: Gender, Discourse, and Consumption in 'Clarissa'.

 
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 
1684-1750. By William B. Warner. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: 
University of California Press. 1998. xvi+325 pp. $48; [pound]37.50 
(paperbound $22.50; [pound]16.95). 
 
Speaking in Hunger: Gender, Discourse, and Consumption in 'Clarissa'. 
By Donnalee Frega. (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture.) Columbia: University 
of South Carolina Press. 1998. viii+177 pp. $29.95 (paperbound $14.95). 

How did 'the novel' become the novel as we think of it? Hardly anyone now believes in 'The Rise of the Novel' as Ian Watt delineated it in 1957 but later versions of this story remain contradictory and contested. ...

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