The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Adrian Poole
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:480
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155
Category/GenreLiterary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521871198
ClassificationsDewey:823.009
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 10 December 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Brontes, 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 Biography

Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.