4Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited, 1983, p. 1.
5See Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, pp. 1 -2 ; see also Ian Watt, The Rise of English Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964, chapter 1.