Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

Klappentext A survey of the most important British novelists of the past 250 years, for students of British fiction. Zusammenfassung The ideal introduction to the English novel for students and teachers! this book assesses the importance of the finest novelists in the English language (excluding living writers). Each writer is introduced in his or her literary context! and the major works are analysed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Adrian Poole; 1. Daniel Defoe Tom Keymer; 2. Samuel Richardson Peter Sabor; 3. Henry Fielding Jane Spencer; 4. Laurence Sterne Melvyn New; 5. Frances Burney Vivien Jones; 6. Jane Austen Jocelyn Harris; 7. Walter Scott Alison Lumsden; 8. Charles Dickens Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; 9. William Makepeace Thackeray Nicholas Dames; 10. Charlotte Brontë Patsy Stoneman; 11. Emily Brontë Heather Glen; 12. Elizabeth Gaskell Brigid Lowe; 13. Anthony Trollope David Skilton; 14. George Eliot Jill L. Matus; 15. Thomas Hardy Penny Boumelha; 16. Robert Louis Stevenson Adrian Poole; 17. Henry James Michiel Heyns; 18. Joseph Conrad Robert Hampson; 19. D. H. Lawrence Michael Bell; 20. James Joyce Maud Ellmann; 21. E. M. Forster Santanu Das; 22. Virginia Woolf Maria DiBattista; 23. Elizabeth Bowen Victoria Coulson; 24. Henry Green Bharat Tandon; 25. Evelyn Waugh Anthony Lane; 26. Graham Greene Dorothea Barrett; 27. William Golding Robert Macfarlane; Further reading; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Adrian Poole
• Mitarbeit: Adrian Poole (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521691574
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69157-4
• Seiten: 482
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft