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A History of English Prose Fiction

by Bayard Tuckerman


Table of Contents | Preface | Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
THE ROMANCE OF CHIVALRY

CHAPTER II
CHAUCER, TALES OF THE YEOMANRY, SIR T. MORE'S "UTOPIA"

CHAPTER III
THE AGE OF ELIZABETH. LYLY, GREENE, LODGE, SIDNEY

CHAPTER IV.
THE PURITANS, "THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS"

CHAPTER V.
THE RESTORATION. ROGER BOYLE, MRS. MANLEY, MRS. BEHN

CHAPTER VI.
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SWIFT, ADDISON, DEFOE, RICHARDSON, FIELDING, SMOLLETT

CHAPTER VII.
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONTINUED. STERNE, JOHNSON, GOLDSMITH, AND OTHERS. MISS BURNEY AND THE FEMALE NOVELISTS. THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL

CHAPTER VIII.
THE NOVEL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. THE NOVEL OF LIFE AND MANNERS. OF SCOTCH LIFE. OF IRISH LIFE. OF ENGLISH LIFE. OF AMERICAN LIFE. THE HISTORICAL NOVEL. THE NOVEL OF PURPOSE. THE NOVEL OF FANCY. USE AND ABUSE OF FICTION


Table of Contents | Preface | Chapters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |

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