3. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. Late Medieval and Early Modern
5. 2. Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Miller’s Tale” 17
6. 3. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688) 31
7. 18th Century
8. 4. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722) 49
9. 5. Samuel Richardson: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) 63
10. 6. Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) 74
11. Premodern and Modernist
12. 7. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861) 87
13. 8. Thomas Hardy: “On the Western Circuit” (1891) 104
14. 9. Henry James: “The Beast in the Jungle” (1903) 114
15. 10. James Joyce: “Grace” (1914) 125
16. 11. Joseph Conrad: The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) 133
17. 12. Virginia Woolf: “An Unwritten Novel” (1921) 145
18. 13. D. H. Lawrence: “Fanny and Annie” (1921) 156
19. 14. Katherine Mansfield: “At the Bay” (1922) 164
20. Contemporary
21. 15. John Fowles: “The Enigma” (1974) 175
22. 16. Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996) 185
23. 17. Conclusion 201