Project Gutenberg 2012-03-19 Public domain in the USA. 131 Lanier, Sidney 1842 1881 11022978 The English Novel and the Principle of its Development Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Malcolm Farmer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The English Novel and the Principle of its Development" by Sidney Lanier is a critical work written in the late 19th century. The book is based on a series of public lectures that explore the significance of the novel as a literary form, discussing its evolution and its relationship to modern society. Lanier delves into broader ideas regarding literary forms and aims to elucidate how the novel has become a dominant means of expression in contemporary culture. The opening of the text sets the stage by outlining Lanier's intentions to analyze the novel not just analytically but rather synthetically, from the perspective of literary art. He contrasts this approach with his earlier work on poetry and emphasizes the importance of understanding the novel's role in modern life. He argues that the novel, much like other forms of prose, is a product of its time, shaped by the increasing complexity of human personality and social interactions. Lanier highlights the transformative power of the novel, which serves both virtuous and vice-ridden narratives, illustrating its profound impact on readers and society as a whole. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en English fiction -- History and criticism PR Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature 645855 645863 2024-09-16T12:41:49.728913 2023-09-17T07:23:25.064514 text/html text/html 655073 2012-03-19T10:13:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 264497 2012-03-19T10:13:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 348303 2024-09-16T12:42:02.281860 application/epub+zip 356172 2024-09-16T12:41:52.836910 application/epub+zip 320817 2024-09-16T12:41:51.141922 application/epub+zip 641424 2024-09-16T12:42:08.087834 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 673961 2024-09-16T12:42:00.326903 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 639549 2022-09-18T04:12:13.931809 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 582318 2024-09-16T12:41:48.150936 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 581977 2012-03-19T10:13:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 225637 2012-03-19T10:13:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 582011 2012-03-19T10:13:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 225467 2012-03-19T10:13:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 582090 2012-03-19T10:13:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 225339 2012-03-19T10:13:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21248 2024-09-16T12:42:08.267819 application/rdf+xml 19696 2024-09-16T12:41:51.537936 image/jpeg 4291 2024-09-16T12:41:51.337917 image/jpeg 327688 2024-09-16T12:41:49.789920 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia