| Description |
x, 526 p. illus. 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. [493]-494. |
| Contents |
Medieval taste in fiction -- Old fashions and new in the sixteenth centrury -- Experiments and achievements of the seventeenth century -- Approaches to the novel -- The dominance of the novel -- The sentimental strain -- The ferment of ideas -- The novel of common life -- The return of romance -- Sir Walter Scott -- The Georgian novel of domestic and social life -- The revival of the picaresque -- Scott's successors in romance -- Dickens and Bulwer-Lytton -- The Victorian world in the novel -- Discussion and propaganda in nineteenth century fiction -- Interpreters: I. Hawthorne, Melville, and the Brontes -- Interpreters: II. Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy -- Variations in romance -- Explorers of varying scenes -- Explorers of the inner life -- The modern world in the novel |
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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