TY - BOOK AU - Parrinder,Patrick ED - Oxford University Press. TI - Nation and novel: the English novel from its origins to the present day SN - 9780199264858 AV - PR830.N35 P37 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics, English, in literature KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Great Britain KW - Nationalism in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [472]-485) and index; The Novel and the Nation; -- Cavaliers, Puritans, and Rogues: English Prose Fiction from 1485 to 1700; -- Cross-Grained Crusoe: Defoe and the Contradictions of Englishness; -- Histories of Rebellion: From 1688 to 1793; -- The Novel of Suffering: Richardson, Fielding, and Goldsmith; -- The Benevolent Robber: From Fielding to the 1790s; -- Romantic Toryism: Scott, Disraeli, and Others; -- Tory Daughters and the Politics of Marriage: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell; -- Turn Again, Dick Whittington': Dickens and the Fiction of the City; -- At Home and Abroad in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction: From Vanity Fair to The Secret Agent; -- Puritan and Provincial Englands: From Emily Bronte to D. H. Lawrence; -- From Forster to Orwell: The Novel of England's Destiny; -- From Kipling to Independence: Losing the Empire; -- Round Tables: Chivalry and the Twentieth-Century English Novel Sequence; -- Inward Migrations: Multiculturalism, Anglicization, and Internal Exile; -- Conclusion: On Englishness and the Twenty-First-Century Novel ER -