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An explanation of the concepts introduced by Watt in his work "The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding," whereby the author feels that the writing of the authors Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding was influenced by broad changes in their society. The writer shows that these authors were more representative of society of the time, and so readers could identify with them more closely.

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"He also believes that these three authors in effect created the novel as a "new literary form." He says the term "novel" did not come into use until the end of the eighteenth century, and that before these three authors wrote this new fiction form, most fiction was romantic in nature. These new novelists however, steeped their stories in realism, and were more representative of the current state of English society."

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