"History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe" by Robert Mayer

Robert Mayer argues that the modern English novel emerged from historical writing. This study makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the origins of the novel in Britain.

Mayer shows how the narratives of Daniel Defoe–unlike those of his contemporaries Aphra Behn and Delarivière Manley–were read, in their own time, as history, making connections that later novelists developed.

Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Baconian historiography: the contours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England
2. 'Idle Trash' or "Reliques of Somthing True'?: the fate of Brut and Arthur and the power of tradition
3. The History of Myddle: memory, history, and power
4. Lifewriting and historiography, fiction and fact: Baxter, Clarendon, and Hutchinson on the English Civil War
5. The secret history of the last Stuart kings
6. “Knowing strange things': historical discourse in the century before Robinson Crusoe
7. 'History' before Defoe: Nashe, Deloney. Behn, Manley
8. Defoe's historical practice: from The Ages Humble Servant'to Major Alexander Ramkins
9. Tacts that are form’d to touch the mind': Defoe's narratives as forms of historical discourse
10. From history to the novel: the reception of Defoe
Conclusion
Index
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought

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