Nation & novel : the English novel from its origins to the present day /

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Patrick Parrinder's new history of the English novel from its beginnings to the present day traces the form's distinctive and often subversive reflection of national identity across the centuries. From the early stories of rogues and criminals to present-day novels of immigration, fiction...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Temas:
English fiction > History and criticism.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain.
Nationalism in literature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Anglais dans la littérature.
Nationalisme et littérature > Grande-Bretagne.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Nationalism and literature.
Romans.
Engels.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The novel and the nation
  • 2. Cavaliers, Puritans, and rogues : English prose fiction from 1485 to 1700
  • 3. Cross-grained Crusoe : Defoe and the contradictions of Englishness
  • 4. Histories of rebellion : from 1688 to 1793
  • 5. The novel of suffering : Richardson, Fielding, and Goldsmith
  • 6. The benevolent robber : from Fielding to the 1790s
  • 7. Romantic Toryism : Scott, Disraeli, and others
  • 8. Tory daughters and the politics of marriage : Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 9. 'Turn again, Dick Whittington!' : Dickens and the fiction of the city
  • 10. At home and abroad in Victorian and Edwardian fiction : from 'Vanity fair' to 'The secret agent'
  • 11. Puritan and provincial Englands : from Emily Brontë to D.H. Lawrence
  • 12. From Forster to Orwell : the novel of England's destiny
  • 13. From Kipling to independence : losing the empire
  • 14. Round tables : chivalry and the twentieth-century English novel sequence
  • 15. Inward migrations : multiculturalism, anglicization, and internal exile
  • Conclusion. On Englishness and the twenty-first-century novel.

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