The art of the novel from 1700 to the present time / by Pelham Edgar ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgar, Pelham, 1871-1948.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 493 pages : folded diagram ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Macmillan company, 1933.

Contents:

Part One

I. Preliminaries

II. The Essentials

Part Two

III. The Eighteenth-Century Advance

IV. Richardson and the Epistolary Novel

V. Henry Fielding and Tom Jones

VI. The Contribution of Sterne

VII. Sir Walter Scott

VIII. Jane Austen

IX. Austen and Thackeray

X.A Group of Dickens's Novels

XI. Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter

XII. Herman Melville and Moby Dick

XIII. The Brontes

XIV. George Elliot

XV. George Meredith

XVI. Thomas Hardy

XVII. The Essential Novelist? Henry James

XVIII. Joseph Conrad

XIX. Edith Wharton

XX. John Galsworthy

- XXI. H.G. Wells and the Modern Mind

XXII. French Realism: Gissing, Moore, and Bennett

XXIII. American Realism, Sex, and Theodore Dreiser

XXIV. Two Anti-Realists: Willa Cather and Cabell

XXV. The Way of Irony and Satire: Maugham, Douglas, Huxley, Lewis

XXVI. Psycho-Analysis and James Joyce

XXVII. The Stream of Consciousness: Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf

XXVIII. Four American Writers: Anderson, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Faulkner

XXIX. Omissions and Conclusions: Chiefly Lawrence.

Notes:

"Bibliography and biographical notes": pages 367-475.

Other Format:

Online version: Edgar, Pelham, 1871-1948. Art of the novel from 1700 to the present time.

OCLC:

484497