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