1. Ian Watt,The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding(Chatto & Windus, 1974) 31.
2. A Welsh,Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Evidence in England(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) 8.
3. Ibid, 256.
4. MM Bakhtin, ‘Epic and Novel’ in M Holquist (ed),The Dialogic Imagination(University of Texas Press, 1981) 16.