1st Edition

An Introduction to the English Novel Volume II

By Arnold Kettle Copyright 1967
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel . In this second part, Kettle builds a discussion of the modern English novel around the study of various books that have a more than casual significance in its development. He begins with an analysis of James, Hardy and Butler: three late Victorian writers whose work points forward... Read more

Preface;  Part I: The Last Victorians  1. Introduction  2. Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady  3. Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh  4. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles  Part II: The Twentieth Century- The First Quarter  1. Introduction  2. Joseph Conrad: Nostromo  3. Mr Bennett and Mrs Woolf  4. D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow  5. James Joyce: Ulysses  6. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India  Part III: The Twentieth Century- The Second Quarter  1. Introduction  2. Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point  3. Graham Green: the Heart of the Matter  4. Joyce Cary: Mister Johnson  5. Ivy Crompton-Burnett: A Family and a Fortune  6. Henry Green: Party Going;  Notes and References;  Reading List;  Index

Biography

Arnold Kettle