The Humanistic Heritage [electronic resource] : Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller

## Directing a 1984 Summer Seminar for College Teachers for the National Endowment for the Humanities helped me clarify my introduction and my final chapter; I am grateful to the participants. The good-natured and thorough secretarial help of Phillis Molock is invaluable to my work. Mira Batra has been helpful with the index and page proofs. As the dedication indicates, I owe a great debt to my wife. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-15 The Humanistic Heritage of James and Lubbock: the Emergence of an Aesthetic of the Novel....Pages 16-40 The Importance of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel ....Pages 41-59 Privileging Literary Criticism: the Legacy of F. R. Leavis’s The Great Tradition ....Pages 60-79 ‘The Idea Embodied in the Cosmology’: the Significance of Dorothy Van Ghent’s The English Novel: Form and Function ....Pages 80-98 ‘Formal Realism’: the Importance of Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel ....Pages 99-117 Two Major Voices of the 1950s: Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism and Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis ....Pages 118-150 Reading as a Moral Activity: the Importance of Wayne C. Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction ....Pages 151-169 The Consolation of Form: the Theoretical and Historical Significance of Frank Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending ....Pages 170-186 Marxist Criticism of the English Novel: Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel and Raymond Williams’s The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence ....Pages 187-221 The Fictional Theories of J. Hillis Miller: Humanism, Phenomenology, and Deconstruction in The Form of Victorian Fiction and Fiction and Repetition ....Pages 222-266 Back Matter....Pages 267-282 This is an examination of the principle works of Anglo-American novel criticism, defining the values, method and concepts that these works have in common and advancing a defence of Anglo-American humanistic criticism and the ideas proposed by Structuralism, Marxism and deconstruction.