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The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong, developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past three hundred years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.  \nadrian poole is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.  \nA complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book.  \nTHE CAMBRIDGE  \nCOMPANION TO  \nENGLISH NOVELISTS  \nEDITED BY  \nADRIAN POOLE  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo  \nCambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, uk  \nPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York  \n[www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org)  \nInformation on this [title: www.cambridge.org/9780521691574](title: www.cambridge.org/9780521691574)[ ](title: www.cambridge.org/9780521691574)© Cambridge University Press 2009  \nThis publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2009  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge companion to English novelists / [edited by] Adrian Poole.  \n[p. cm](p. cm). (Cambridge companions to) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nisbn 978-0-521-87119-8 (hardback)  \n1. English fiction–History and criticism–Handbooks, manuals, etc.  \nI. Poole, Adrian. II. Title. III. Series.  \npr821.c36 2010  \n823 ′. 509–dc22  \n2009033923  \nisbn 978-0-521-87119-8 Hardback  \nisbn 978-0-521-69157-4 Paperback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.  \nCONTENTS  \nNotes on contributors  \nIntroduction  \nAdrian Poole  \n1 Daniel Defoe THOMAS Keymer  \n2 Samuel Richardson Peter Sabor  \n3 Henry Fielding Jane Spencer  \n4 Laurence Sterne Melvyn New  \n5 Frances Burney Vivien Jones  \n6 Jane Austen Jocelyn Harris  \n7 Walter Scott Alison Lumsden  \n8 Charles Dickens  \nRobert Douglas-Fairhurst  \n9 William Makepeace Thackeray Nicholas Dames  \n10 Charlotte Brontë Patsy Stoneman  \n11 Emily Brontë Heather Glen  \npage vii  \n1  \n14  \n31  \n48  \n63  \n80  \n98  \n116  \n132  \n149  \n165  \n180  \nContents  \n12 Elizabeth Gaskell 193 Brigid Lowe  \n13 Anthony Trollope 210 David Skilton  \n14 George Eliot 225 Jill l. Matus  \n15 Thomas Hardy 242 Penny Boumelha  \n16 Robert Louis Stevenson 258 Adrian Poole  \n17 Henry James 272 Michiel Heyns  \n18 Joseph Conrad 290 Robert Hampson  \n19 D. H. Lawrence 309 Michael Bell  \n20 James Joyce 326 Maud Ellmann  \n21 E. M. Forster 345 Santanu Das  \n22 Virginia Woolf 361 Maria Dibattista  \n23 Elizabeth Bowen 377 Victoria Coulson  \n24 Henry Green 393 Bharat Tandon  \n25 Evelyn Waugh 407 Anthony Lane  \n26 Graham Greene 423 Dorothea Barrett  \n27 William Golding ","cbCaivS2Ox5cLGRz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivS2Ox5cLGRz","pdf",1935271,477,"English","# Introduction\n# Notes on contributors\n# Daniel Defoe\n# Samuel Richardson\n# Henry Fielding\n# Laurence Sterne\n# Frances Burney\n# Jane Austen\n# Walter Scott\n# Charles Dickens\n## Guide to further reading\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"Which novelists are discussed in the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists?\",\"answer\":\"The essays address major English novelists from the British Isles, including Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf, among others.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the book do for each author’s work?\",\"answer\":\"It explains each writer’s significance in their own time, examines connections to predecessors and successors, and analyzes their most important novels.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is the volume intended for?\",\"answer\":\"It serves as a helpful guide for people studying and teaching the novel and helps readers consider both well-known and less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen.\"}]","THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH NOVELISTS | PDF",1789947553,735]