Watch this History of British Literature video entitled Development of the English Novel to study the development of the English novel, from this genre's forerunners to its formal beginnings with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, concluding with two major novelists of the early 19th century: Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. Learn about the subjects and themes explored by early English novelists.
You will trace the development of the English novel from its forerunners to its formal beginnings with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding to its two major novelists of the early nineteenth century: Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.