Title: The life of the novel.
Authors: Goldknopf, David, 1918-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1972
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism
Contents: How the novel began -- The Confessional increment: a new look at the I-narrator -- The I-narrator in the pseudomemoir: Daniel Defoe -- The meaning of the epistolary format in Clarissa -- Marlow's mighty lie: the I-narrator in Joseph Conrad -- What plot means in the Victorian novel -- The failure of plot in Tom Jones -- The morality of hypocrisy: the structure of Hard times -- What coincidence means in the Victorian novel -- Realism in the novel -- Summation and prevision.