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Index
Coverpage
Half title page
The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Notes on contributors
Note on references
Introduction: The novel in Europe 1600–1900
1 Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616): Don Quixote: romance and picaresque
2 Daniel Defoe (1660–1731): Journalism, myth and verisimilitude
3 Samuel Richardson (1689–1761): The epistolary novel
4 Henry Fielding (1707–1754): The comic epic in prose
5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): The novel of sensibility
6 Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): The fiction of sentiment
7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832): The German Bildungsroman
8 Walter Scott (1771–1832): The historical novel
9 Stendhal (1783–1842): Romantic irony
10 Mary Shelley (1797–1851): The Gothic novel
11 Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850): ‘Realism’ and authority
12 Charles Dickens (1812–1870): Englishman and European
13 George Eliot (1819–1880): Reality and sympathy
14 Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880): Realism and aestheticism
15 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881): ‘Fantastic realism’
16 Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910): Art and truth
17 Émile Zola (1840–1902): Naturalism
18 Henry James (1843–1916): Henry James's Europe
19 Marcel Proust (1871–1922): A modernist novel of time
20 Thomas Mann (1875–1955): Modernism and ideas
21 James Joyce (1882–1941): Modernism and language
22 Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): Re-forming the novel
23 Samuel Beckett (1906–1989): Language, narrative, authority
24 Milan Kundera (1929–): The idea of the novel
Conclusion: The European novel after 1900
Further reading
Index
Authors Edward Albee edited by
Topics The Actress edited by
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