The Adversary Literature: The Eighteenth Century English Novel

by Frederick R. Karl

Examines and revaluates the rise of the English novel, the works of major eighteenth-century British novelists, and collateral types of fiction

360 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Along with his biographies, Frederick Karl wrote several volumes of literary criticism, among them American Fictions: 1940-1980. He also was general editor and volume co-editor of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, five volumes of which have appeared. He taught at City College of New York, Columbia, and NYU. Karl died in 2004.