The History of the English Novel (In 10 Volumes)

Certainly a student of English literature cannot think of a scholar who was ever undertaken such a stupendous work of scholarship as late Ernest A. Baker, D. Litt., M.A., has by writing the History of the English Novel in ten volumes, each volume consisting of around three hundred and above pages. The enormous material concerning the English novel, ever since its imperceptible and protean origin baffles the imagination of any scholar, W.J. Courthope’s History of English Poetry in six volumes (1895-1911) stands only second to Baker’s hitherto unsurpassable work on the novel. No. Student of English fiction can afford to ignore these volumes for any sort of study of the English novel. The Age of Romance: From the Beginning to the Renaissance; The Elizabeth Age and After; The Later Romance and the Establishment of Realism; Intellectual Realism: From Richardson to Sterne; The Novel of Sentiment and the Gothic Romance; Edgeworth, Austen, Scott; The Age of Dickens and Thackeray; From the Brontes to Meredith: Romanticism in the English Novel; The day Before Yesterday; Yesterday.