03083nam 2200637Ia 450 991078991220332120230801222408.01-280-06164-297866135198560-300-18243-0(CKB)2670000000176235(OCoLC)784954182(CaPaEBR)ebrary10546767(SSID)ssj0000657108(PQKBManifestationID)11446775(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657108(PQKBWorkID)10656176(PQKB)11591409(MiAaPQ)EBC3420808(Au-PeEL)EBL3420808(CaPaEBR)ebr10546767(CaONFJC)MIL351985(OCoLC)923597580(EXLCZ)99267000000017623520111027d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLives of the novelists[electronic resource] a history of fiction in 294 lives /John SutherlandNew Haven Yale University Press20121 online resource (833 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-17947-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction--from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann.American fictionHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticismFictionHistory and criticismNovelistsBiographyNovelists, EnglishBiographyAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.NovelistsNovelists, English823.009Sutherland John1938-163527MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789912203321Lives of the novelists3797432UNINA