The English Novel

Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118724925
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).

An Introduction To The English Novel

Author: Arnold Kettle
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015611078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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An Introduction to the English Novel - Volume Two: Henry James to the Present

Author: Arnold Kettle
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447485300
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

Author: Michael McKeon
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801869594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.

The English Novel in History 1700-1780

Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134656424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists, as well as evaluatiing the importance of lesser known ones. John Richetti traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: * scandalous and amatory fictions * criminal narratives of the early part of the century * the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's * novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life * novels by women and how they relate to the shift of subject matter This original and useful book revises traditional literary history by considering novels from those years in the context of the transformation of Britain in the eighteenth century.

The English Novel, Form and Function

Author: Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description

The English Novel

Author: Walter Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description

English Novel in History, 1895–1920

Author: David Trotter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134980183
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction.

The Modern Novel

Author: Jesse Matz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470777028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century. Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel. Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists. Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.

The English Novel

Author: George Saintsbury
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171567454
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
The Book Is A Standard And Comprehensive Study Of The English Novel. It Would Be Found Highly Useful By The Students, Researchers And Teachers Of English Literature.