The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
The Humanistic Heritage of James and Lubbock: the Emergence of an Aesthetic of the Novel....Pages 16-40
The Importance of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel....Pages 41-59
Privileging Literary Criticism: the Legacy of F. R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition....Pages 60-79
‘The Idea Embodied in the Cosmology’: the Significance of Dorothy Van Ghent’s The English Novel: Form and Function....Pages 80-98
‘Formal Realism’: the Importance of Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel....Pages 99-117
Two Major Voices of the 1950s: Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism and Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis....Pages 118-150
Reading as a Moral Activity: the Importance of Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction....Pages 151-169
The Consolation of Form: the Theoretical and Historical Significance of Frank Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending....Pages 170-186
Marxist Criticism of the English Novel: Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel and Raymond Williams’s The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence....Pages 187-221
The Fictional Theories of J. Hillis Miller: Humanism, Phenomenology, and Deconstruction in The Form of Victorian Fiction and Fiction and Repetition....Pages 222-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-272