CONTENTS

FICTION UP TO 19 CENTURY 

1. Rise and Development of British Novel 

Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews

SUMMARY 

ANALYSIS

CHARACTERS

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

2. Realism (and Naturalism) in Fiction 

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

SUMMARY 

ANALYSIS 

CHARACTERS

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

3. Psychological Fiction 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

SUMMARY 

ANALYSIS 

CHARACTERS

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

4. 19th Century American Short Fiction

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

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