Abstract
Abstract AS Miss Tompkins has pointed out in her admirable study, The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800, ‘during the years that follow the death of Smollett… the two chief facts about the novel are its popularity as a form of entertainment and its inferiority as a form of art’. In the first two decades of the new century the achievements of Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott greatly increased the prestige of prose fiction.
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