The English Novel: An Introduction & Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America by Terry Eagleton
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Overview: Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA (born 22 February 1943) is a prominent British literary theorist and critic. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University; Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland and Distinguished Visiting Professor of English Literature at The University of Notre Dame.
Genre: Non-Fiction
The English Novel: An Introduction Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide–ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontës, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. Follows the model of Eagleton’s hugely popular Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996).
Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbours just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives to describe everything from one’s pet dog to one’s rock collection, or speak frequently of being "empowered." Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children’s school grades with bumper stickers announcing "My Child Made the Honor Roll"? Why don’t we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, even when all signs point to failure? On his quirky journey through the language, geography and national character of the United States, Eagleton proves to be at once an informal and utterly idiosyncratic guide to our peculiar race. He answers the questions his compatriots have always had but (being British) dare not ask, like why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays, or why we publicly chastise cigarette smokers as if we’re all spokespeople for the surgeon general. In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbours "across the pond."
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