The English Novel: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton
Category: Literary Criticism

Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists,this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorousintroduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the presentday. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe,Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott,Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot,Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H.Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popularLiterary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition,1996).