English Novel: An Introduction

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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 376 pages
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 Brontes, 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).

About the author (2004)

Terry Eagleton received a Ph.D from Cambridge University. He is a literary critic and a writer. He has written about 50 books including Shakespeare and Society, Criticism and Ideology, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Literary Theory, The Illusions of Postmodernism, Why Marx Was Right, The Event of Literature, and Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America. He wrote a novel entitled Saints and Scholars, several plays including Saint Oscar, and a memoir entitled The Gatekeeper. He is also the chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing.

Bibliographic information

TitleEnglish Novel: An Introduction
AuthorTerry Eagleton
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2004
ISBN1405131209, 9781405131209
Length376 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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