| PAGE | | Preface | vii | | PART I | | Origins | 5 | | 'The Romance of the Rose' | 19 | | Chaucer and Boccaccio | 31 | | The Rogue Novel | 51 | | The Elizabethans | 67 | | The Pastoral | 81 | | Cervantes | 93 | | The Essayists' Contribution to Story-telling | 107 | | Transition: Bunyan and Defoe | 125 | | Richardson and the Feminine Novel | 139 | | Fielding, Smollett, and the Masculine Novel | 155 | | A Note on Sterne | 169 | | PART II | | Chateaubriand and Romanticism | 175 | | Scott and Romanticism | 187 | | The Romanticism of 1830 | 201 | | Balzac | 217 | | Gautier and the East | 231 | | Poe and the New Technique | 243 | | Hawthorne and Moral Romance | 257 | | MÉrimÉe and Conversational Story-telling | 273 | | Flaubert | 287 | | A Note on De Maupassant | 298 | | Conclusion | 305 | | Index | 313 |
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