ENGLISH NOVEL 1
PART ONE THE EVOLUTION OF THE NOVEL 1
Chapter 1．The Novel of the Sixteenth Century 1
Chapter 2．The Novel of the Seventeenth Century 4
PART TWO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 26
Chapter 1．The Rapid Growth of the Novel 26
Chapter 2．Daniel Defoe 32
Chapter 3．Jonathan Swift 54
Chapter 4．Henry Fielding 80
Chapter 5．Oliver Goldsmith 95
PART THREE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 103
Chapter 1．The Prosperous Period in Novel Writing 103
Chapter 2．Jane Austen 108
Chapter 3．Walter Scott 117
Chapter 4．Charles Dickens 133
Chapter 5．William Makepeace Thackeray 160
Chapter 6．Charlotte Bront？ 185
Chapter 7．Emily Bront？ 205
Chapter 8．Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 221
Chapter 9．George Eliot 230
Chapter 10．Thomas Hardy 250
PART FOUR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 278
Chapter 1．The Development of the Novel 278
Chapter 2．John Galsworthy 284
Chapter 3．William Somerset Maugham 313
Chapter 4．Virginia Woolf 329
Chapter 5．James Joyce 359
Chapter 6．D.H.Lawrence 373
ENGLISH DRAMA 394
Chapter 1．The Drama Before Shakespeare 394
Chapter 2．William Shakespeare 421
Chapter 3．From Shakespeare to Sheridan 483
Chapter 4．From Sheridan to Bernard Shaw 570