(The) Development of the English novel / by Wilbur L. Cross

Includes appendix and index

From Arthurian romance to Richardson The mediaeval romancers and story tellers The Spanish influence The Elizabethans The historical allegory and the French influence The restoration Literary forms that contributed to the novel The passing of the old romance Daniel Defoe The eighteenth - century realists Samuel Richardson Henry fielding The novel versus the Drama Tobias Smollett Laurence Sterne The minor novelists: Sarah Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith From 'Humphry Clinker' to 'Waverley' The Imitators The novel of purpose The light transcript of contemporary manners The Gothic romance The historical romance Jane Austen - the critic of romance and of manners Nineteenth century romance Sir Walter Scott and the historical novel Scott's legacy The romance of war James Fenimore cooper and the romance of the forest and the sea The renovation of Gothic romance The realistic reaction The minor humorists and the author of 'Pickwick' Charles Dickens and the humanitarian novel The return to realism William makepeace Thackeray Bulwer-Lytton in the role of realist, George Borrow, Charles Reade Anthony Trollope Charlotte Bronte The psychological novel Elizabeth Gaskell - the ethical formula of the psychologists George Eliot George Meredith The contemporary novel Henry James and impressionism Philosophical realism: Mrs. Humphry Ward and Thomas Hardy Robert Louis Stevenson and the revival of romance Rudyard Kipling