Author: Donovan, Robert Alan
Title: The Shaping Vision. Imagination in the English Novel from Defoe to Dickens
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1967). 2nd printing, orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix, 272 pp, Some page-edge soil.. Slight corner bumps, rubberstamp to top-page-edges,VG. dustwrap ¶ Contents: Vision & Form; The Two Heroines of 'Moll Flanders'; The Problem of Pamela; 'Joseph Andrews' as Parody; Sterne and the Logos; 'Humphrey Clinker' and the Novelist's Imagination; 'Mansfield Park' and Jane Austen' s Moral Universe; 'Redgauntlet', 'Henry Esmond', and the Modes of Historical Fiction; Structure and Idea in 'Bleak House'.

Keywords: English literature, Literary criticism, English fiction, Imagination, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett