A history of the French novel (to the close of the 19th century) /
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London :
Macmillan and co., limited,
1917-19.
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Table of Contents:
- I. From the beginning to 1800
- II. From 1800 to 1900
- I. Essays in English literature: Crabbe. Hogg. Sydney Smith. Jeffrey. Hazlitt. Moore. Leigh Hunt. Wilson. De Quincey. Robert Southey. William Cobbett. Miss Ferrier. English war-songs: Campbell. Songs of the Crimean war. Madame D'Arblay. Twenty years in political satire. Some great biographies.
- II. Essays in English literature: Lockhart. Praed. Borrow. Peacock. Landor. Thomas Hood. Three humourists: Hook, Barham, Maginn. Corrected impressions: Thackeray. Tennyson. Carlyle. Mr. Swinburne. Macaulay. Browning. Dickens. Matthew Arnold. Three mid-century novelists. Mr. William Morris. Mr. Ruskin. Trollope revisited. On writing out and Henry Kingsley.
- III. Miscellaneous essays: The historical novel. Modern English prose. English prose style. The present state of the English novel. Shakespeare and the grand style. Milton and the grand style. Dante and the grand style. The cookery of the grouse. The cookery of the partridge. The young England movement. Thoughts on republics. Twenty years of reviewing. Spelling reform. The permanent and the temporary in literature. Bolshevism in its cradle.
- IV. Essays in French literature: Charles Baudelaire. Gustave Flaubert. Chamfort and Rivarol. Saint-Évremond. A frame of miniatures. Ernest Renan. A paradox on Quinet. The contrast of English and French literature. The end of a chapter. A French man of letters of all work. Anatole France.