Victorian Criticism of the Novel

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Summary

This volume is a collection of twelve 'landmark' essays that chart the development of English theories of fiction during the great age of the novel.

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Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873) From 'On Art in Fiction' (1838)
George Moir (1800-1870) From 'Modern Romance and Novel (1842)
Archibald Alison (1792-1867) From 'The Historical Romance (1845)
Anonymous From 'Recent Works of fiction' (1853)
James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) From The Relation of Novels to Life, 1855
William Caldwell Roscoe (1823-1859) From 'W. M. Thackeray, Artist and Moralist (1856)
David Masson (1822-1907) From 'British Novelists Since Scott' (1859)
George Eliot (Marian Evans) (1819-1880) 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' (1856)
George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) Criticism in Relation to Novels (1865)
Henry James (1843-1916) 'The Art of Fiction' (1884)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 'A Humble Remonstrance (1884)
Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) (1856-1935) From 'A Dialogue on Novels' (1885)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 'Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus' (1897)
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