The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

Author: Adrian Poole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-12-10

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1139828118

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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.

The English Novel
The English Novel

Author: George Saintsbury

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9788171567454

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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.

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740

Author: Michael McKeon

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-05-22

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780801869594

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

The English Novel
The English Novel

Author: Terry Eagleton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1118724925

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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).

The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending

Author: Julian Barnes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-10-05

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0307957330

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

The Cambridge History of the English Novel
The Cambridge History of the English Novel

Author: Robert L. Caserio

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 1006

ISBN-13: 1316175103

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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.

English Novel in History, 1895–1920
English Novel in History, 1895–1920

Author: David Trotter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1134980183

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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.

Nation & Novel
Nation & Novel

Author: Patrick Parrinder

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0199264856

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Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.

Factual Fictions
Factual Fictions

Author: Lennard J. Davis

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1997-01-29

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780812216103

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"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h