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).
قائمة المحتويات
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
عن المؤلف
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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