The English Novel: An IntroductionWritten 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.
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Adam Bede ambiguity artist become believes Brontés characters civilization Clarissa colonial common Conrad contrast critics Crusoe culture D. H. Lawrence death Defoe Defoe’s Dickens Dickens’s England English novel everyday experience fact fantasy feel fiction Fielding Fielding’s Finnegans Wake George Eliot Gulliver’s Travels hard Hardy Hardy’s Heathcliff Henry Fielding Henry James Houyhnhnms human idea ideals identity imagination imperialism individual Irish ironically irony James James’s Jane Austen Joyce Joyce’s Jude Jude the Obscure judgement kind labour language Lawrence Lawrence’s less liberal literary literary realism living Maggie material means middle-class Middlemarch modern modernist moral narrative narrator Nature Nostromo novelist one’s political portrays radical reader realism realist novel reality reason relationship Richardson Romantic rural Samuel Richardson satire sense sexual simply social society speak spirit story style Swift things tradition Tristram truth turn typical Ulysses values Victorian virtue whole woman Women in Love Woolf writing