Brown, Homer Obed, 1933-

Institutions of the English novel from Defoe to Scott / Homer Obed Brown. - xxiii, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction: Beginning With No Beginning -- The Errant Letter and the Whispering Gallery -- The Displaced Self in the Novels of Daniel Defoe -- Tom Jones: The Bastard of History -- Tristram to the Hebrews: Some Notes on the Institution of a Canonic Text -- Sir Walter Scott and the Institution of History: The Jacobite Novels in The Relation of Fathers -- The İnstution of the English Novel.

0812233832 (alk. paper)


Literature and history--Great Britain
Literature and society--Great Britain
Canon (Literature)
English fiction--History and criticism--18th century
English fiction--History and criticism--19th century

PR851 / .B75 1997