A Brief Hstory of English Novels..docVIP

A Brief History of English Novels The English novels in England as a new genre first appears in the work of John Bunyan who wrote the famous allegory the Pilgrim’s Progress In the 18th century, Daniel Defoe and Janathan Swift further developed it. Novels didn’t become mature until Henry Fielding wrote his Tom Jones in which he invented the third person point of view 4．English novel flourished in the 19th century. A special feature was that there were quite a number of women writers, such as Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters. During the period, the critical realism became the mainstream. Works b