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The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel. Some important English novels have been popular; some have not; but ours is not a history of bestsellers. To be sure, the novel is not an entirely autonomous literary form, developing in isolation from the influence of market forces or of politics, national or international. Far from it: no one could seriously make such an argument. And yet if the novel sees at all - if it offers unique insights - it does so above all through the ceaseless making, breaking, and remaking of literary forms. Every decision that a novelist makes is formally mediated, and thinking through those decisions provides access to the history of the novel as such. By attending to this history of formal innovations one begins to understand the range and depth of which the English novel has been capable. We hope, even though the Cambridge History concludes by affirming the enduring power of romance, that our way of turning the novel's progress into history is less quixotic than the quest of the Knight of the Woeful Countenance.

Roman anglais --- English fiction --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique.

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This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature.

Roman anglais --- Histoire et critique --- Murdoch, Iris, --- Golding, William, --- White, Patrick, --- Bellow, Saul, --- Critique et interprétation --- Histoire et critique. --- Golding, William --- Critique et interprétation. --- Bellow, Saul

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In the nineteenth century, the relationship between the human body and the object world was redefined by momentous social, cultural, and scientific changes. This book traces the emergence of an exciting range of ideas about materiality, phenomenological experience, and the realm of objects in nineteenth-century literature and culture. The book features contributions by leading specialists in the field as well as the work of younger colleagues. The collection sheds new light on the porous boundaries, affinities, and frictions between bodies and things in the nineteenth-century imagination by drawing on the insights of gender studies, postcolonial studies, the history of science, and performance studies. The contributors explore canonical nineteenth-century works by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront︠, Charles Dickens, and Henry James, alongside less-familiar texts, such as travelogues, cartoons and scientific treatises, and a wide range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.

Corps humain dans la littérature --- Corps humain --- Englisch. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Human Body. --- Human body in literature --- Human body in literature. --- Human body --- Human body. --- Körper --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Literatur. --- Literature. --- Medicine in Literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- Médecine dans la littérature. --- Objekt --- Roman anglais --- Sachkultur. --- Aspect social --- Aspect symbolique --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Symbolic aspects --- Symbolic aspects. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Histoire et critique --- 1800-1899. --- England.