The English Novel And The Principle Of Its Development

A lucid, reverent doorway into the roots of English storytelling-the English Novel and the Principle of Its Development reimagined for today's readers. Lanier's essay-on-novels surveys narrative form with clarity, inviting both the curious reader and the scholar to feel the arc of literary history unfold. This book offers a compact yet rich map of nineteenth century england, tracing how social context shapes fiction from the Victorians to the craft of Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It bl...