THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL LITERARY SOURCES & DOCUMENTS Edited and with an Introduction Eleanor McNees by Volume III The Nineteenth-Century Novel The English Novel: Scott to James HELM INFORMATION
Contents VOLUME III The Twentieth-Century Novel VII. Writers on the Novel 1900-1950 100. FRANK NORRIS, "The Novel With a Purpose," 1903, The Responsibilities of the Novelist. Vol. 7. 1928 3 101. H. G. WELLS, "The Contemporary Novel," An Englishman Looks at the World, 1914 i 7 102. ARNOLD BENNETT, "Is the Novel Decaying?" Cassell's Weekly, 28 March 1923 19 103. VIRGINIA WOOLF, "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown", 1924, rptd The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays, 1950 22 104. D. H. LAWRENCE, "Why the Novel Matters", Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Edward D. McDonald. 1936 36 105. EDITH WHARTON, "Character and Situation in the Novel," The Writing of Fiction, 1925 41 106. E. M. FORSTER, "The Plot", Aspects of the Novel, 1927 49 ' 107. ERNEST HEMINGWAY, from Death in the Afternoon, 1932 59 108. W. H. AUDEN, "The Guilty Vicarage," The Deer's Hand and Other Essays, 1948 61 VIII. Critics on the Novel 1900-1950 109. PERCY LUBBOCK, from The Craft of Fiction, 1921 73 110. JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET, "Decline of the Novel", 1925, The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature, trans. Helene Weyl, 1968 80 111. EDWIN MUIR, from The Structure of the Novel, 1929 100 112. M. M. BAKHTIN, from "Discourse in the Novel", 1934-35, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, 1981 115 113. GEORG LUKACS, from The Historical Novel, 1937, trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell, 1983 133 114. RENE WELLEK and AUSTIN WARREN, "The Nature and Modes of Narrative Fiction", Theory of Literature, 1942 153
115. ALLEN TATE, "Techniques of Fiction", Sewanee Review, 52.2, Spring 1944 166 116. F. R. LEAVIS, The Great Tradition, 1948 177 117. MARK SCHORER, "Technique as Discovery", Hudson Review, 1, 1948 197 118. V. S. PRICHETT, "The Future of English Fiction", Partisan Review, 15.10, Oct. 1948 211 IX. Modernism/Postmodernism Writers: 1950 to the Present 119. ALBERT CAMUS, "The Novel and Revolt", L'homme revolte, 1951, trans. Susan Stakel, 2004 219 120. ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, "A Future for the Novel", 1956, rptd For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction, trans. Richard Howard', 1965 226 121. RALPH ELLISON, "Society, Morality, and the Novel", The Living Novel: A Symposium, ed. Granville Hicks, 1957 232 122. JOHN BARTH, "The Literature of Exhaustion", The Atlantic, 220.2, August 1967, 253 123. WILLIAM GASS, "The Concept of Character in Fiction", New American Review, 7, 1969 263 124. FLANNERY O'CONNOR, "The Nature and Aim of Fiction", Mastery and Manners, ed. Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, 1969 275 125. CHINUA ACHEBE, "The Novelist as Teacher." 1965. Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975 285 126. CHINUA ACHEBE, "Thoughts on the African Novel", 1973, Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975 289 127. JOHN GARDNER, "Moral Fiction", Hudson Review, 29A, Winter 1976/77 295 128. SAUL BELLOW, "The Nobel Lecture," The American Scholar, 46, Summer 1977 308 129. JOHN BARTH, "The Literature of Replenishment: Postmodernist Fiction", The Atlantic, 245:1, 19801. 318 130. MILAN KUNDERA, from The Art of the Novel, 1986 329 131. CARLOS FUENTES, "Latin America and the Universality of the Novel", The Novel in the Americas, ed. Raymond Leslie Williams, 1992 338 132. SALMAN RUSHDIE, "In Defense of the Novel, Yet Again", The New Yorker, 72, June 24 & July 1, 1996 347 133. SALMAN RUSHDIE, "Damme, This is the Oriental Scene for You!" The New Yorker, 73, June 23 & 30, 1997 354
X. Critics of the Novel: 1950 to the Present 134. LIONEL TRILLING, "Manners, Morals, and The Novel", The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, 1950 369 135. ROBERT HUMPHREY, "'Stream of Consciousness': Technique or Genre?" Philological Quarterly, 30.4, Oct. 1951 380 136. GRANVILLE HICKS, "Fiction and Social Criticism", College English, 13.7, April 1952 383 137. ROLAND BARTHES, "Writing and the Novel", Writing Degree Zero, 1953, trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith, 1968 390 138. LEON EDEL, "Atmosphere of the Mind", The Modern Psychological Novel, 1955 " ' 396 139. NORMAN FRIEDMAN, "Point of View in Fiction: The Development of a Critical Concept", PMLA, 70.5, December 1955 407 140. NORTHROP FRYE, "Specific Continuous Forms (Prose Fiction)", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays, 1957 430 141. IRVING HOWE, "The Idea of the Political Novel", Politics and the Novel, 1957 440 142. WAYNE BOOTH, "Distance and Pointof-View: An Essay in Characterization", Essays in Criticism, 11, 1961 447 143. MAURICE Z. SHRODER, "The Novel as a Genre", The Massachusetts Review, 1963 461 144. TZVETAN TODOROV, "The Typology of Detective Fiction", 1966, The Poetics of Prose, 1971, trans. Richard Howard, 1977 473 145. ROBERT SCHOLES, and ROBERT KELLOGG, "The Narrative Tradition", The Nature of Narrative, 1966 481 146. MALCOLM BRADBURY, "Towards a Poetics of Fiction: 1) An Approach through Structure" Novel, 1.1, Fall 1967 490 147. DAVID LODGE, "Towards a Poetics of Fiction: 2) An Approach through Language." Novel, 1.2, Winter 1968 499 148. BARBARA HARDY, "Towards a Poetics of Fiction: 3) An ApproachThrough Narrative." Novel, 2.1, Fall 1968 511 149. ROBERT SCHOLES, "Towards a Poetics of Fiction: 4) An Approach through Genre." Novel, 2.2, Winter 1969 521 150. RAYMOND WILLIAMS, "Introduction", The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence, 1970 532 151. AVROM FLEISHMAN, from The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Wool/, 1971 544 152. MARK SPILKA, "Henry James and Walter Besant: 'The Art of Fiction' Controversy", Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 6.2. Winter 560 1973 579 153. J. HILLIS MILLER, "Narrative and History", ELH, 41.3, Fall 1974 154. GERARD GENETTE, "Voice", Narrative Discourse: An Essay in 594
Method, 1972, trans. Jane E. Lewin, 1980 155. Q. D. LEAVIS, "The Englishness of the English Novel", English 606 Studies, 62.2, April 1981 156. RAYMOND WILLIAMS, "Region and Class in the Novel", Writing 624 in Society, London, 1983 157. NANCY ARMSTRONG, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political 632 History of the Novel, 1987 158. DAVID LODGE, "The Novel Now: Theories and Practices", Novel: 669 A Forum on Fiction, 21.2-3, Winter/Spring 1988 159. LINDA HUTCHEON, "Historiographic Metafiction: 'The Pastime of Past Time'", A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, 683 1988 160. WILLIAM SPINDLER, "Magic Realism: A Typology", Forum for 701 Modem Language Studies, 39.1, January 1993