小説の起源を論じるための古典

★イアン・ワット『小説の勃興』

The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Table of Contents
Preface
I Realism and the novel form
II The reading public and the rise of the novel
III Robinson Crusoe, individualism and the novel
IV Defoe as novelist: Moll Flanders
V Love and the novel: Pamela
VI Private experience and the novel
VII Richardson as novelist: Clarissa
VIII Fielding and the epic theory of the novel
IX Fielding as novelist: Tom Jones
X Realism and the later tradition: a note
Afterword
Index

これは半世紀も前（1957）に書かれた本だが、この中で展開された議論は未だに有効だ。
キーワード：フォーマル・リアリズム（"formal realism"）
この分野では古典ともいうべき本書の訳本はなぜ絶版なのか？解せない。

類書

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

Before Novels: Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

イアン・ワットの別著

The Literal Imagination: Selected Essays

この中の"The First Paragraph of The Ambassadors: An Explication"が読みたい。