Cavalcade of the English novel
Edition: 1954 ed., with supplementary bibliography.
Publisher: Holt
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 686
Subjects: English fiction; History and criticism; Histoire et critique; Roman anglais
Description: For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Ch .6. Smollett and the novel of humors. Smollett's attitude toward fiction. From Roderick Random to Humphry Clinker. The sea dogs and other eccentrics. The spirit of Smollett; title: Ch. 7. The triumph of sensibility ; Laurence Sterne. The road to Sterne. Style, method, and point of view. Yorick vindicated; title: Ch.8. Sentimentalists and revolutionaries. Backgrounds of sentimentalism. Sentimentalism and benevolence : Goldsmith and Mackenzie. Sentimentalism and education : Brooke; Day; Mrs. Inchbald. Sentimentalism and revolution : Holcroft and Godwin. Bage and other propagandists; title: Ch. 9. The renascence of wonder. The gothic revival. Horace Walpole and The Castle of Otranto. Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, and Charlotte Smith. Mrs. Radcliffe, Queen of terror. "Monk" Lewis and Charlotte Dacre. Maturin and the gothic masterpiece. Vathek and the Oriental tale. The life and death of the gothic novel.; title: Ch. 10. The romance of the tea-table. Fanny Burney, the first "lady novelist". The work and influence of Maria Edgeworth. The world and Jane Austen. Jane Austen's characterization. Her limitations and her greatness; title: Ch. 11. The heights. The making of Sir Walter Scott. The Waverley Novels, a survey. Scott and the historical novel. Merits and demerits. The soul of Sir Walter; title: Ch. 12. From Scott to Dickens. Bulwer to virtuoso. Disraeli and the political novel. Charles Lever and the Anglicized Irish. Dark Rosaleen : William Carleton. Fiction, fox-hunting, and Surtees. Captain Marryat, "the enslaver of youth". The individualism of Peacock; title: Ch. 13. White magic. The life and works of Charles Dickens. The influences on Dickens. Towards evaluation. Dickens and the modern novel. The greatness of Dickens. Ch. 14. The disciples of Dickens. The Dickens-Reade-Collins "school". Wilkie Collins. Charles Reade. Thw two Mrs. Gaskells. The novels of Charles Kingsley; title: Ch. 15. Counter-blast : W.M. Thackeray. Thackeray and Dickens. Thackeray's career. Technique and point of view. Some shortcomings; title: Ch. 16. The novelist as novelist : Anthony Trollope. Trollope's place in fiction. Biographical and statistical. Theory and practice. People. Fundamentals. The value of Trollope's limitations; title: Ch. 17. Fire over Yorkshire. How it all began. Charlotte Bronte relives Angria. The greatness of Wuthering Heights. Anne Bronte's novels. What the Brontes mean; title: Ch. 18. The "new" novel : George Eliot. A survey. George Eliot's originality. God and the novelist; title: Ch. 19. The poetic comedy of George Meredith. Some comparisons. The publishing record. Philosophy of life. A difficult form. What remains.; title: Ch. 20. Hardy and the cosmic drama. Inheritor of Old renown. The historian of Wessex. Three groups of novels. The real achievement. The question of "pessimism"; title: Ch. 21. Romance resurgent : Robert Louis Stevenson. R.L.S. and the novel. Mostly biographical. Characater, plot, and setting. The gospel of romanticism; title: Ch. 22. Victorian sunset. Mrs. Humphry Ward, who popularized ideas. Maurice Hewlett, who defies classification. J.M. Barrie, "a diet all salt and sugar". The phenomenon that was Kipling; title: Ch. 23. Towards a new century. George Gissing, a scholar in Grub Street. George Moore, the man of wax. Samuel Butler and his influence; title: Ch.24. Values and Joseph Conrad. Conrad's approach to fiction. Conrad's writing career. Conrad's vision of life. Conrad's narrative method. A last word; title: Ch. 25. Novelist of being : Arnold Bennett. "Time goes". Bennett's life-experience and literary ideals. An attempt at classification. "The Grand Babylon Hotel cycle". Buried alive and other farces. Serious fiction : before The old wives' tale. The masterpieces. The best of the later novels. The spirit of Arnold Bennett; title: Ch. 26. H.G. Wells, "realist of the fantastic". Approach to phenomenon. A wonderful variety. The romances. The Charles Dickens group. Sex, love, and marriage. Politics and citizenship. War, religion, and education. By way of summary; title: Ch. 27. Pity, irony, and John Galsworthy. March to mastery. The Forsytes. The others. Literary ideals and practice. Criticism of life. Vale; title: Ch.28. D.H. Lawrence, pilgrim of the rainbow. The man and his books. "I, who loathe sexuality ... ". Lawrence and the novel; title: Ch. 29. "Stream-of-consciousness". On the stream : Dorothy M. Richardson. Below the stream : James Joyce. The stream and the world : Virginia Woolf. Ch.30. News of Tishnar : Walter de la Mare. "Not matter-of-fact; title: but matter-of-truth". The four long stories. On a smaller scale. Significances. "Heere taketh the makere of this book his leve."