Q. D. Leavis

Q. D. Leavis

Collected Essays: Volume 2, the American Novel and Reflections on the European Novel
Herausgeber: Singh, G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

All the essays are informed by that broad sociological view of literature that caused Q. D. Leavis to ask how the novel rose and why it flourished.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521318259
• ISBN-10: 0521318254
• Artikelnr.: 25854578

Inhaltsangabe

Sources and Acknowledgements
Editor's introduction
1. The American Novel
2. Hawthorne as poet
3. Melville: the 1853-6 phase
4. Henry James and the disabilities of the American novelist in the nineteenth century
5. James, Trollope and the American-English confrontation theme
6. A note on literary indebtedness: Dickens, George, Eliot, Henry James
7. The fox is the novelist's idea: Henry James and the house beautiful
8. Henry James: the stories
9. The institution of Henry James
10. Henry James's heiress: the importance of Edith Wharton
11. Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
12. The French novel
13. The Russian novel
14. The Italian novel
Notes.