Tuckerman traces English storytelling from the romances of chivalry and Chaucer’s tales through More’s Utopia, the Elizabethans Lyly, Greene and Sidney, Bunyan, Aphra Behn and the Restoration, and on to Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Scott and their successors, always tying the books to the society that read them.
A clear survey for readers who want a map of the English novel’s long history. Download the free EPUB.