Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: The novel in Europe 1600–1900
- 1 Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616): Don Quixote: romance and picaresque
- 2 Daniel Defoe (1660–1731): Journalism, myth and verisimilitude
- 3 Samuel Richardson (1689–1761): The epistolary novel
- 4 Henry Fielding (1707–1754): The comic epic in prose
- 5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): The novel of sensibility
- 6 Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): The fiction of sentiment
- 7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832): The German Bildungsroman
- 8 Walter Scott (1771–1832): The historical novel
- 9 Stendhal (1783–1842): Romantic irony
- 10 Mary Shelley (1797–1851): The Gothic novel
- 11 Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850): ‘Realism’ and authority
- 12 Charles Dickens (1812–1870): Englishman and European
- 13 George Eliot (1819–1880): Reality and sympathy
- 14 Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880): Realism and aestheticism
- 15 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881): ‘Fantastic realism’
- 16 Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910): Art and truth
- 17 Émile Zola (1840–1902): Naturalism
- 18 Henry James (1843–1916): Henry James's Europe
- 19 Marcel Proust (1871–1922): A modernist novel of time
- 20 Thomas Mann (1875–1955): Modernism and ideas
- 21 James Joyce (1882–1941): Modernism and language
- 22 Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Re-forming the novel
- 23 Samuel Beckett (1906–1989): Language, narrative, authority
- 24 Milan Kundera (1929–): The idea of the novel
- Conclusion: The European novel after 1900
- Further reading
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: The novel in Europe 1600–1900
- 1 Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616): Don Quixote: romance and picaresque
- 2 Daniel Defoe (1660–1731): Journalism, myth and verisimilitude
- 3 Samuel Richardson (1689–1761): The epistolary novel
- 4 Henry Fielding (1707–1754): The comic epic in prose
- 5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): The novel of sensibility
- 6 Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): The fiction of sentiment
- 7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832): The German Bildungsroman
- 8 Walter Scott (1771–1832): The historical novel
- 9 Stendhal (1783–1842): Romantic irony
- 10 Mary Shelley (1797–1851): The Gothic novel
- 11 Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850): ‘Realism’ and authority
- 12 Charles Dickens (1812–1870): Englishman and European
- 13 George Eliot (1819–1880): Reality and sympathy
- 14 Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880): Realism and aestheticism
- 15 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881): ‘Fantastic realism’
- 16 Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910): Art and truth
- 17 Émile Zola (1840–1902): Naturalism
- 18 Henry James (1843–1916): Henry James's Europe
- 19 Marcel Proust (1871–1922): A modernist novel of time
- 20 Thomas Mann (1875–1955): Modernism and ideas
- 21 James Joyce (1882–1941): Modernism and language
- 22 Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Re-forming the novel
- 23 Samuel Beckett (1906–1989): Language, narrative, authority
- 24 Milan Kundera (1929–): The idea of the novel
- Conclusion: The European novel after 1900
- Further reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
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- The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists , pp. 457 - 460Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012