The English Novel: An Introduction

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Wiley, Aug 6, 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 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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About the author (2004)

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.

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TitleThe English Novel: An Introduction
AuthorTerry Eagleton
Editionreprint
PublisherWiley, 2004
ISBN1405117079, 9781405117074
Length376 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Literary Criticism / General
  
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