The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521871198)

In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Bront s, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. 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 300 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.

Author: Adrian Poole
ISBN-10: 0521871190
ISBN-13: 9780521871198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2009
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2010