| Description |
xvi, 303 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Includes information on Jane Austen (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sandition, Sense an Sensibility), Albert Camus (Caligula, La Chute, LʼEtranger), Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes), Charles Dickens (Bleak House, The Chimes, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Nicolas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers, Pictures from Italy), George Eliot (Daniel Deronda, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Scenes of Clerical Life), Gustave Flaubert (Bouvard et Pecuchet), etc. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Evil in the English novel. Richardson's Clarissa. William Godwin's novels. Conflicts in Jane Austen's novels. Charles Dickens: a haunting. Dickens and Dostoevsky. Meredith's The egoist. Zola's L'assommoir. Gissing's New Grub Street. Kipling's Kim -- Twentieth century: View from the 1950s: Virginia Woolf (I) . Future of the English novel. Lawrence and Leavis. Diversity and depth. Letter from London. Arnold Bennett. Galsworth's Forsyte saga. English novel 1912-1922. Marcel Proust. Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. Virginia Woolf (II). John Cowper Powys. Ivy Compton-Burnett. Aldous Huxley. Evelyn Waugh. Henry Green. Christopher Isherwood. Claude Simon. Albert Camus. Gunter Grass. Dilemma of the contemporary novelist -- Novels of Angus Wilson: Novelist and the narrator. Iowa review interview. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Added Author |
McSweeney, Kerry, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0670770760 : $27.50 |
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9780670770762 |
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