The English novel (Registro nro. 119146)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ford, Ford Madox, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1873-1939 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The English novel |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-04-12 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Sean (@parchmentglow) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The English novel" by Ford Madox Ford is a critical study written in the early 20th century. It surveys the development and technique of the novel (largely through English examples but with an international lens) and argues for its central social function in modern life, culminating in Joseph Conrad. The work blends history, craft talk, and polemic for general readers, challenging academic orthodoxies while reassessing figures from Bunyan, Defoe, and Richardson to Flaubert and Conrad.<br/><br/>The opening of this study begins with an “Author’s Apology” to Hugh Walpole, explaining the book’s origins as lectures for American students, Ford’s modest readership in England, and his decision to publish at home out of gratitude and to aid students; he promises a frank, controversial, craftsman’s map rather than academic doctrine. He then argues that the novel has become indispensable in a mobile, urban world where gossip and shared lives have thinned: unlike tabloids, art leaves lasting impressions and supplies the “cloud of human instances” once provided by classical culture, thereby aerating public life. He outlines a plan to trace a transnational lineage from antiquity to Conrad and signals that his estimates will provoke disagreement. Early chapters sketch the ground: medieval story collections and drama fed the appetite for fiction; the Elizabethan stage is treated as “novels for recitation,” with thoughts on Shakespeare’s page-versus-stage effects; printing and Chaucer prepared readers for sustained prose. He contrasts Spanish picaresque with English taste, then shows Bunyan’s sincere, vividly rendered allegory and Defoe’s journalistic, autobiographical convention as foundational steps toward convincing narrative. Moving “towards Flaubert,” he links modern technique to the plain, image-rich prose of the Prayer Book and Bible, praises Richardson’s epistolary sentiment as a breakthrough, and criticizes Fielding and Thackeray as moralizing purveyors of the “nuvvle.” Throughout, he frames the central technical problem as finding a watertight convention that makes readers feel truly present in a scene, noting how Bunyan, Defoe, and Richardson each attempted it. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Constable & Company Limited, 1930 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | English fiction -- History and criticism |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/englishnovelfrom0000ford/page/n5/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/englishnovelfrom0000ford/page/n5/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78426">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78426</a> |
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