| Description |
xix, 1064 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Licensing pleasure : literary history and the novel in early modern Britain / William Warner -- Defoe and early narrative / Richard Kroll -- Sex, lies, and invisibility : amatory fiction from the Restoration to mid- century / Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers -- Richardson and his circle / James Grantham Turner -- Fielding and the novel at mid-century / Jill Campbell -- From Swift to Smollett : the satirical tradition in prose narrative / G.S. Rousseau -- Sterne : comedian and experimental novelist / John Allen Stevenson -- Sentimental novels of the later eighteenth century / G.A. Starr -- Frances Burney and the rise of the woman novelist / Kristina Straub -- The Gothic novel, 1764-1824 / George E. Haggerty -- Novels of the 1790s : action and impasse / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Jane Austen / James Thompson -- Walter Scott: narrative, history, synthesis / Judith Wilt -- A novel of their own : romantic women's fiction, 1790-1830 / Anne K. Mellor -- "Speak what we think" : the Brontës and women writers / Barry V. Qualls -- Dickens / John Kucich -- Thackeray and the ideology of the gentleman / Ina Ferris -- George Eliot and the novel of ideas / Gillian Beer -- Trollope / N. John Hall -- Wilkie Collins and the sensation novel / Ronald R. Thomas -- Disraeli, Gaskell, and the condition of England / Mary Poovey -- Shaping Hardy's art : vision, class and sex / George Levine -- The nineteenth-century novel and empire / Patrick Brantlinger -- Lewis Carroll and the child in Victorian fiction / Robert M. Polhemus -- The avoidance of naturalism : Gissing, Moore, Grand, Bennett, and others / David Trotter -- Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie : imperialism to postcolonialism / Michael Gorra -- Bennett, Wells, and the persistence of realism / Robert Squillace -- Joseph Conrad / Daniel R. Schwarz -- D.H. Lawrence / Vincent P. Pecora -- Isherwood, Huxley, and the thirties / Michael Rosenthal -- James Joyce / Michael Seidel -- Virginia Woolf / Vicki Mahaffey -- Forster, Ford, and the new novel of manners / David Galef -- Samuel Beckett's postmodern fictions / Brian Finney -- Satire between the wars : Evelyn Waugh and others / George McCartney - The reaction against modernism : Amis, Snow, Wilson / Rubin Rabinovitz -- Sleeping with the enemy : Doris Lessing in the century of destruction / Lynne Hanley -- Drabble to Carter : fiction by women, 1962-1992 / Carol McGuirk --The contemporary novel / Michael Wood -- Biographies of British novelists. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Indexed Term |
English fiction History |
| Added Author |
Richetti, John J.
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| ISBN |
0231078587 : $69.95 |
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