Written by one of the leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel form 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 Brontess, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conard, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the ...
