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: 9781015616592
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

Author: Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description

The Graphic Novel

Author: Jan Baetens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025230
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel.

An Introduction to the English Novel

Author: Arnold Kettle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317356691
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967), this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. Since the novel, like every other literary form, is a product of history, the book opens with a discussion of how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century, as well as the function and background of prose fiction. The third part of the book examines six great novels from Jane Austen to George Eliot. ‘A serious and rewarding study.’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘His examination of some eighteenth century writers and analysis of six famous novels- from Emma to Middlemarch- have wit, authority and a sensitivity that compel the reader’s attention.’ Dublin Magazine

English Novel in History, 1895-1920

Author: David Trotter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134980175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 523

Book Description
Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, David Trotter's "The English Novel in History 1895-1920" provides a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction This study embraces the whole range of early 20th-century fiction, from avant-garde innovations to popular mass-market genres. Separate sections are devoted to James, Conrad, Kipling, Bennett, Lawrence, Lewis, and Joyce. It establishes a classification of literary styles in the period. Based on this classification, it offers an account of the subject-matters which preoccupied writers of all kinds: gender, race, nationality, sexual psychology, production and consumption. "The English Novel in History" aims to redefine our understanding of literary Modernism, and should be useful reading for all students of modern English literature.

The Cambridge History of the English Novel

Author: Robert L. Caserio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1006

Book Description
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.