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pt. 1. The novel and The open the novel and reality --pt. 2. The novel and the comic Fielding, Sterne, and the comic modes of fiction --'The most interesting moving picture': Fanny Hill and comedy -- moral comedy in Emma and Persuasion --pt. 3. Phases of the novel and the 1920s --E.M. Forster as Victorian and Howards End and A passage to India --Virginia Wool and Ford Madox two styles of modernity --The modern comic novel in the 1920 Lewis, Huxley, and Waugh --pt. 4. The novel The postwar English novel --Malcolm Lowry as modernist --William Cooper and the 1950 Scenes from provincial life --C.P. Snow's bleak landscape --The fiction of the comic mode of Angus Wilson --'A house fit for free characters': Iris Murdoch and Under the net --Muriel Spark's fingernails --The novelist as John Fowles and his Magus --pt. 5. Towards a poetics of the The novel and its poetics.