Product Description: The volumes in this series examine significant literary foundations of the novel, by applying the most recent critical approaches: Marxism, feminism, structuralism, and others.Each volume surveys a specific novel-writing tradition, and includes: -- A chronology listing publication dates of major novels, birth and death dates of novelists, and dates of significant events-- An introductory overview of the novels and their critical reception-- A summary of the state of the criticism-- Primary and secondary source bibliographie...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)