Includes bibliographical references (p. [472]-485) and index.
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 1790s -- 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.
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