Describes the development of the realist novel through major writers such as Dickens, Thackaray, Scott, Eliot, Austen and Meredith. Contributors include Ian Watt, Arnold Kettle, Georg Lukacs, Marilyn Butler, Edward Said, Mikhail Bakhtin. Includes a great deal of discussion on Austen. Unversity of Pittsburgh Press. Hb, Dj. 1975. USED. $20.00