The English Novel: An Introduction
"Eagleton's presentation of the history of the novel is admirably clear and almost entirely free of the disfiguring jargon so relied upon by theorists and bamboozlers."The Irish Independentà"Eagleton, almost alone among academic literary critics of his generation, has never been afraid of asking big questions about big things. InThe English Novel: An Introductionhe takes aim at a very large target indeed. Being Eagleton (the most articulately and discriminately ideological critic of our time) he does, of course, do much more than merely 'introduce'. He makes sense of the English novel."John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, UCL