Nation & novel: the English novel from its origins to the present day

Introduction

1. The novel and the nation

2. Cavaliers, Puritans, and rogues : English prose fiction from 1485 to 1700

3. Cross-grained Crusoe : Defoe and the contradictions of Englishness

4. Histories of rebellion : from 1688 to 1793

5. The novel of suffering : Richardson, Fielding, and Goldsmith

6. The benevolent robber : from Fielding to the 1790s

7. Romantic Toryism : Scott, Disraeli, and others

8. Tory daughters and the politics of marriage : Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and Elizabeth Gaskell

9. 'Turn again, Dick Whittington!' : Dickens and the fiction of the city

10. At home and abroad in Victorian and Edwardian fiction : from 'Vanity fair' to 'The secret agent'

11. Puritan and provincial Englands : from Emily Brontë to D.H. Lawrence

12. From Forster to Orwell : the novel of England's destiny

13. From Kipling to independence : losing the empire

14. Round tables : chivalry and the twentieth-century English novel sequence

15. Inward migrations : multiculturalism, anglicization, and internal exile

Conclusion. On Englishness and the twenty-first-century novel.