This volume presents a comprehensive exploration of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century, beginning with its origins ... over the past few decades on the sentimental novel in English that ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.

p. 187. Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, ...

Writers, curators and critics, including Mariella Frostrup, selected the 100 English language Novels That Shaped Our World. The list also includes Jilly Cooper's Riders and Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy are novels that still sparkle with audacity and innovation. On his journey through 18th-century fiction, Hitchings reveals how ...