Novel Characters from Literature
The History of the Novel
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Romantic Period
The Victorian Period
The Post-Victorian Period
The Pre-Atomic Period
The Nuclear Age
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Some of the noted novelists of this period are: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, Fanny Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, John Bunyan, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Tobias George Smollett, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Mrs. Ann Radcliffe and Miguel Cervantes.
The Romantic Period
Some of the noted novelists of this period are: Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott, Stendal, Jane Austen, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Honore de Balzac, Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Love Peacock, Jane Porter, Johann Rudolf Wyss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Mary Shelley.
The Victorian Period
Some of the noted novelists of this period are: The Bronte Sisters, Thomas Hardy, Fyodor Dostoevski, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Post-Victorian Period
Some of the noted novelists of this period are: Thomas Hardy, William Somerset Maugham, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster and Anatole France.
The Pre-Atomic Period
Some of the noted novelists of this period are: Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, Thomas Mann, Langston Hughes, C.S. Forester, Herman Hesse and Pearl Buck.
The Nuclear Age
Some of the noted novelists of this period are: George Orwell, Carson McCullers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Eudora Welty, Heinrich Boll, Toni Morrison, Leon Uris, Gunter Grass, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, Vladimir Nabokov, Imre Kertesz, Ivo Andric and other Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.
Bibliography
Becjiffm, Samuel Phd., Monarch College Outlines: English Literature I (450 - 1798 A.D.). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.S
Becjiffm, Samuel Phd., Monarch College Outlines: English Literature II (1798 - Present). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.