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- 1.Definitions and Distinctions
- 2.The “Englishness” of the English Novel
- 3.Historical Context of Early English Fiction
- 4.The Rise of the Novel — Richardson and Fielding
- 5.After 1750 — Sterne, Burney, and Radcliffe
- 6.Scott and the Historical Novel
- 7.Austen and the Comedic Tradition
- 8.Austen and the History of Consciousness
- 9.Dickens — Early Works
- 10.Novelists of the 1840s — Thackeray
- 11.Novelists of the 1840s — The Brontës
- 12.Dickens — Later Works
- 13.After 1870 — Review and Preview
- 14.Eliot and the Multiplot Novel
- 15.Eliot and the Unfolding of Character
- 16.Hardy and the Natural World
- 17.James and the Art of Fiction
- 18.Conrad and the “scramble for Africa”
- 19.Ford and Forster — Transition to Modernism
- 20.Lawrence and the “bright Book of Life”
- 21.Joyce — Dublin and Dubliners
- 22.Joyce — Realism and Anti-Realism
- 23.Woolf and the Poetic Novel
- 24.The Impact of the Novel