Nation and novel : the English novel from its origins to the present day / Patrick Parrinder

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