The Novel: From its Origins to the Present Day (Bloomsbury Guides to English Literature)

by Andrew Michael Roberts

This is a guide to one of the most complex and popular of literary forms. A series of critical essays examines the history and special qualities of the novel as a genre, from antecedents in classical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747514631
• ISBN13: 9780747514633
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A well- written but insular guide

This work should more properly have been called a Guide to the English Novel'. It has as a good series of critical essays on the novel from Renaissance times to the nineteen nineties. It has an alphabetical section which includes biographical and bibliographical information on many novelists.It has also plot summaries of major novelists and definitions of literary terms. It does not however include very many major novelists and in this regard the absence of Americans is particularly noticeable. Nonetheless it has much valuable information.