LEADER 03083nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910789912203321 005 20230801222408.0 010 $a1-280-06164-2 010 $a9786613519856 010 $a0-300-18243-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176235 035 $a(OCoLC)784954182 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10546767 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000657108 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11446775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657108 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10656176 035 $a(PQKB)11591409 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420808 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420808 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546767 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL351985 035 $a(OCoLC)923597580 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176235 100 $a20111027d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLives of the novelists$b[electronic resource] $ea history of fiction in 294 lives /$fJohn Sutherland 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (833 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-17947-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aNo 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. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNovelists$vBiography 606 $aNovelists, English$vBiography 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNovelists 615 0$aNovelists, English 676 $a823.009 700 $aSutherland$b John$f1938-$0163527 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789912203321 996 $aLives of the novelists$93797432 997 $aUNINA