ISBN: 9780333283325 - the novel to 1900 (great writers library) (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. The Novel to 1900. Tiny mark to bottom edge. Individual entries on more than 100 writers, including the masters of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as a wealth of minor writers. Included are Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne, as well as the gothic novelists of the late 18th century: Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, meredith, Eliot, James, as well as popular writers like Ballantyne, Surtees, and Yonge. Individual entries include short biography, complete book list, short reading list, and a signed criticakl essay. The Introduction by A. O. J. Cockshut provides an overall view of the entire period, from a time when prose fiction was becoming for the first time a concern of some of the best writers to the time when James could claim for the novel the status of 'the greatest and subtlest of literary forms'. 313 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …