Living Fiction - Reading the British Novel from Daniel Defoe to Julian Barnes

Analysing a wide range of extracts from key works of British fiction from the 18th to the 21st Century, William Hutchings lucidly demonstrates how close reading can enhance appreciation of detail and illuminate whole novels.>

List of contents

Principal Novels Discussed
 Time-line of Selected Significant Novels, 1719-2011
 1. Introduction
 2. Describing People
 3. Describing Places
 4. Presenting Action
 5. Speaking
 6. Commenting
 Notes
 Index of Literary and Grammatical Terms
 General Index.

About the author

William Hutchings

Product details

• Authors: William Hutchings
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9781137298348
• ISBN: 978-1-137-29834-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Fiction, Social Sciences, Fiction Literature, British novel;Defoe;English literature;fiction;novel