Nation & novel
Subtitle: the English novel from its origins to the present day
By: Patrick Parrinder.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780199264841
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature; Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain; Nationalism in literature
Other titles: Nation and novel
Description: "Nation and Novel traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins to the present day. Major novelists from Daniel Defoe to V. S. Naipaul have drawn on national history and mythology in novels which have pitted Cavalier against Puritan, Troy against Whig, region against nation, and domesticity against empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.