Year: 1994
Editors-compilers: John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel
Authors: Коллектив
Genre: literary criticism, collection of articles, guide
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN-10: 0231078587
ISBN-13: 978-0231078580
English language
Format: FB2
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of pages: 1064
This comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the 18th century through its growing pains in the 19th century to its angst-ridden maturity in the 20th century.
Such standard texts as Ernest Baker's 11-volume History of the English Novel (1924-39) and Walter Allen's The English Novel (1955) were published many years ago. Those single-author opuses reflected their eras; the Columbia History, arranged chronologically, uses 39 essays by 39 scholars to present our own era's varied critical perspectives and to bring things up-to-date. Some essays are devoted to individual authors (e.g., Austen, Dickens), others to several authors (e.g., Amis, Snow, and Wilson), and still others to such topics as "The Gothic Novel, 1764–1824." Each essay has a brief selected bibliography; an appendix includes thumbnail sketches of 100 of the British novelists discussed. This excellent work is indispensable to any library supporting the study of English literature.
Introduction
THE COLUMBIA HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NOVEL
Licensing Pleasure: Literary History and the Novel in Early Modern Britain
Defoe and Early Narrative
Sex, Lies, and Invisibility: Amatory Fiction from the Restoration to Mid-Century
Richardson and His Circle
Fielding and the Novel at Mid-Century
From Swift to Smollett: The Satirical Tradition in Prose Narrative
Sterne: Comedian and Experimental Novelist
Sentimental Novels of the Later Eighteenth Century
Frances Burney and the Rise of the Woman Novelist
The Gothic Novel, 1764 -1824
Novels of the 1790s: Action and Impasse
Jane Austen
Walter Scott: Narrative, History, Synthesis
A Novel of Their Own: Romantic Women's Fiction, 1790–1830
"Speak what we think": The Brontës and Women Writers
Dickens
Thackeray and the Ideology of the Gentleman
George Eliot and the Novel of Ideas
Trollope
Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel
Disraeli, Gaskell, and the Condition of England
Shaping Hardy's Art: Vision, Class, and Sex
The Nineteenth-Century Novel and Empire
Lewis Carroll and the Child in Victorian Fiction
The Avoidance of Naturalism: Gissing, Moore, Grand, Bennett, and Others
Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie: Imperialism to Postcolonialism
Bennett, Wells, and the Persistence of Realism
Joseph Conrad
D. H. Lawrence
Isherwood, Huxley, and the Thirties
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Forster, Ford, and the New Novel of Manners
Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions
Satire between the Wars: Evelyn Waugh and Others
The Reaction against Modernism: Amis, Snow, Wilson
Sleeping with the Enemy: Doris Lessing in the Century of Destruction
Drabble to Carter: Fiction by Women, 1962–1992
The Contemporary Novel
Biographies of British Novelists
Notes on Contributors
Index
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