| Description |
x, 493 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"First published in 1933." |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliography and biographical notes": pages 367-475. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries -- The essentials -- The eighteenth-century advance -- Richardson and the epistolary novel -- Henry Fielding and Tom Jones -- The contribution of sterne -- Sir Walter Scott -- Jane Austen -- Austen and Thackeray -- A group of Dicken's novels -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter -- Herman Melville and Moby Dick -- The Brontes -- George Eliot -- George Meredith -- Thomas Hardy -- The essential novelist? Henry James -- Joseph Conrad -- Edith Wharton -- John Galsworthy -- H. G. Wells and the modern mind -- French realism: Gissing, Moore, and Bennett -- American realism, sex, and Theodore Dreiser -- Two Anti-Realists: Willa Cather and Cabell -- The way of irony and satire: Maugham, Douglas, Huxley, Lewis -- Psycho-analysis and James Joyce -- The stream of consciousness: Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf -- Four American Writers: Anderson, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Faulkner -- Omissions and conclusions: chiefly lawrence |
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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