Terry Eagleton

The English Novel (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118724927
• Artikelnr.: 39054799

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"Eagleton's presentation of the history of the novel is admirablyclear and almost entirely free of the disfiguring jargon so reliedupon by theorists and bamboozlers."
The Irish Independentà

"Eagleton, almost alone among academic literary critics of hisgeneration, has never been afraid of asking big questions about bigthings. In The English Novel: An Introduction he takes aimat a very large target indeed. Being Eagleton (the mostarticulately and discriminately ideological critic of our time) hedoes, of course, do much more than merely 'introduce'. He makessense of the English novel."
John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern EnglishLiterature, UCL