Remember Brit Lit (or British Literature for the purist)? I took the class during my senior year in high school and only remember reading Shakespeare.
Nation and Novel traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the present-day novels of immigration.
Major novelists from Daniel Defoe to the late twentieth century have drawn on national history and mythology in novels which have pitted Cavalier against Puritan, Tory against Whig, region against nation, and domesticity against empire.
The English novel is deeply concerned with the fate of the nation, but almost always at variance with official and ruling-class perspectives on English society.
Nation and Novel is available today for $3.65.
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