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The English Novel: An Introduction / Edition 1

The English Novel: An Introduction / Edition 1

by Terry Eagleton
The English Novel: An Introduction / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
1405117079
ISBN-13:
9781405117074
Pub. Date:
08/06/2004
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
1405117079
ISBN-13:
9781405117074
Pub. Date:
08/06/2004
Publisher:
Wiley
The English Novel: An Introduction / Edition 1

The English Novel: An Introduction / Edition 1

by Terry Eagleton

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781405117074
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 08/06/2004
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 9.05(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996) and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.

Table of Contents

Preface.

1. What is a Novel?.

2. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift.

3. Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson.

4. Laurence Sterne.

5. Walter Scott and Jane Austen.

6. The Brontës.

7. Charles Dickens.

8. George Eliot.

9. Thomas Hardy.

10. Henry James.

11. Joseph Conrad.

12. D.H. Lawrence.

13. James Joyce.

14. Virginia Woolf.

Postcript: After the Wake.

Notes.

Index

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