An Introduction to the English Novel

First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel . In this second part, Kettle builds a discussion of the modern English novel around the study of various books that have a more than casual significance in its development. He begins with an analysis of James, Hardy and Butler: three late Victorian writers whose work points forward to the major preoccupations of twentieth-century novelists. In his discussion of a dozen or so of these