In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of
the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles
(excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne,
Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence,
Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is
explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and
successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These
essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken
together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of
fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful
guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow
readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as
Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more
established place in literary history.
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9781139801522
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2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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