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The makers of English fiction /

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Main Author: Dawson, W. J. (William James), 1854-1928
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Chicago : F.H. Revell Co., [1905]
Series:The makers of English fiction--vol. III
Subjects:
Authors, English.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The father of English fiction [Daniel Defoe]--Richardson, and the novel of sentiment
  • From Fielding to Jane Austen
  • Jane Austen and the novel of social comedy
  • The Waverley novels
  • Scott's greatness
  • William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Characteristics of Thackeray
  • Charles Dickens
  • The greatness of Dickens
  • The Brontes
  • George Eliot
  • Charles Reade
  • Charles Kingsley
  • George Meredith
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Religion in fiction
  • American novelists
  • Concluding survey.