Richetti, John J.

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RICHETTI, John J.

RICHETTI, John J. American, b. 1938. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1987-. Assistant Professor of English, Columbia University, NYC, 1967-70; Associate Professor, then Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1970-87. Publications: Popular Fiction before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739, 1969; Defoe's Narratives: Situations and Structures, 1975; Philosophical Writing: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, 1983; Daniel Defoe, 1987; The Novel in History: 1700-1780, 1999; (ed.) The Columbia History of the British Novel, 1996. Address: Dept. of English, University of Pennsylvania, 34th and Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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