Contents: Preface. 1. Fiction and the novel. 2.
The foundation in romance. 3.
From Lyly to Swift. 4.
The four wheels of the novel. 5.
Minor and later 18 century novels. 6.
Eighteenth century beginnings with Samuel Richardson. 7.
Henry fielding in 18 century. 8.
Walter Scott and Miss Austen. 9.
Jane Austen's realism. 10.
Modern romanticism: Walter Scott. 11.
Charles Dickens and his times. 12.
William Makepeace Thackeray. 13.
Anthony Trollope and others. 14.
The successors to Thackeray. 15.
The mid-Victorian novel. 16.
Onward developments: Smollett, Sterne and others. 17.
Tracing the French influence on English fiction. 18.
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). 19.
Thomas Hardy, George Meredith against other contemporaries. 20.
R.L.
Stevenson and his novels. 21.
A summarized conclusion on the Yesterday's fiction. 22.
The American contribution to English novel. "The book traces the history and development of the English prose fiction through various literary movements and important writers of the fiction
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