English Novel

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English Novel

An Introduction

Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: Terry Eagleton

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Published on: 29th May 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 576 Kb

ISBN: 9781118724927


Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.

Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce.

Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel.

Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).

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