| Description |
ix, 359 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"First edition." |
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"Selected reading list": p. 349-352. |
| Contents |
Conquest of realistic incident, Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders -- Novel of sentiment, Samuel Richardson: Clarissa -- Novels of manners, Henry Fielding: Tom Jones -- Picaresque novel, Tobias George Smollett: Roderick Random -- Comic novel, Laurence Sterne: Tristram shandy -- Gothic romance, Mrs. Ann Radcliffe: The mysteries of Udolpho -- Novel of character, Jane Austen: Emma -- Historical romance, Sir Walter Scott: Old mortality -- Comedy of character, Charles Dickens: David Copperfield -- Novel of social satire, William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity fair -- Subjective novel, Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre -- Dramatic novel, Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights -- Psychological novel, George Eliot: Middlemarch -- Comic spirit, George Meredith: The egoist -- Tragic view of life, Thomas Hardy: The return of the native -- Realistic novel, George Moore: Esther Waters -- Novelist in search of perfection, Henry James: The ambassadors -- Realism and the spirit of compromise, Arnold Bennett: The old wives' tale -- Novelist as social critic, John Galsworthy: The Forsythe saga -- Impressionistic novel, Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique. |
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