The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists

ISBN-13: 9780521515047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 476 str.

Michael Bell (University of Warwick)

Opis

A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.

Recenzje

"Each chapter includes a bibliography of primary texts and suggestions for further reading, and Bell frankly and honestly admits that the book leaves out many important novelists, some of whom are listed in a long sentence that ends, appropriately enough, in an ellipsis."
--Choice

Spis treści

Introduction: the novel in Europe, 1600–1900 Michael Bell; 1. Miguel de Cervantes Edwin Williamson; 2. Daniel Defoe Cynthia Wall; 3. Samuel Richardson Thomas Keymer; 4. Henry Fielding Thomas Lockwood; 6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Timothy O'Hagan; 7. Laurence Sterne Michael Bell; 8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Martin Swales; 9. Walter Scott Susan Manning; 10. Stendhal Ann Jefferson; 11. Mary Shelley David Punter; 12. Honoré de Balzac Michael Tilby; 13. Charles Dickens John Bowen; 14. George Eliot John Rignall; 15. Gustave Flaubert Timothy Unwin; 16. Fyodor Dostoevsky Sarah Young; 17. Leo Tolstoy Donna Tussing Orwin; 18. Emile Zola Brian Nelson; 19. Henry James Angus Wrenn; 20. Marcel Proust Marion Schmid; 21. Thomas Mann Ritchie Robertson; 22. James Joyce Christopher Butler; 23. Virginia Woolf Laura Marcus; 24. Samuel Beckett Leslie Hill; 25. Milan Kundera Rajendra A. Chitnis; Conclusion: the European novel after 1900 Michael Bell; Further reading; Index.