Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
Introduction
The environment in England during the 1880’s and 1890’s was an especially fertile one for the development of new trends in literature. As the century came to a close, all the giants of the novel, except George Meredith, had either died or stopped writing. Even Thomas Hardy, who can be justly classified as either “Victorian” or “modern,” quit writing prose in 1895 and turned to poetry. The...
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