Nation & novel [[electronic resource] ] : the English novel from its origins to the present day / / Patrick Parrinder

• Autore: Parrinder Patrick
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.009/358
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature; Nationalism and literature - Great Britain; Nationalism in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [472]-485) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. The Novel and the Nation; 2. Cavaliers, Puritans, and Rogues: English Prose Fiction from 1485 to 1700; 3. Cross-Grained Crusoe: Defoe and the Contradictions of Englishness; 4. Histories of Rebellion: From 1688 to 1793; 5. The Novel of Suffering: Richardson, Fielding, and Goldsmith; 6. The Benevolent Robber: From Fielding to the 1790's; 7. Romantic Toryism: Scott, Disraeli, and Others; 8. Tory Daughters and the Politics of Marriage: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell; 9. 'Turn Again, Dick Whittington!': Dickens and the Fiction of the City ; 10. At Home and Abroad in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction: From Vanity Fair to The Secret Agent 11. Puritan and Provincial Englands: From Emily Brontë to D. H. Lawrence; 12. From Forster to Orwell: The Novel of England's Destiny; 13. From Kipling to Independence: Losing the Empire; 14. Round Tables: Chivalry and the Twentieth-Century English Novel-Sequence; 15. Inward Migrations: Multiculturalism, Anglicization, and Internal Exile; Conclusion: On Englishness and the Twenty-First-Century Novel; Notes; Author Biographies; Further Reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Patrick Parrinder's new history of the English novel from its beginnings to the present day traces the form's distinctive and often subversive reflection of national identity across the centuries. From the early stories of rogues and criminals to present-day novels of immigration, fiction has played a major part in defining our ideas of England and Englishness. Nation and Novel provides both a comprehensive survey and also a new interpretation of the importance of. the English novel. - ;What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped
• Titolo autorizzato: Nation & novel
• ISBN: 1-280-90539-5; 0-19-153267-3; 1-4294-9119-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808369603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II