Birth of the British Novel Network: BBC Four, BBC iPlayer (UK) Air Date: February 7, 2011 (United Kingdom) 59 min | Special Interest, Arts, Culture, History | TV Movie (2011) (ENG/SUB ENG) About: Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of the radical and pioneering 18th-century British novelists who established all the literary genres we recognise today, a golden age led by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney and William Godwin. #BirthOfTheBritishNovel #BBCFour #BBCiPlayer #SpecialInterest #Arts #Culture #History@zdenek1964 #History@britblood #HenryHitchings #MoviesOfThePast
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