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  • © 1995

How to Study a Novel

Authors:

  1. John Peck
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Part of the book series: Macmillan Study Skills (MASTSK)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tackling the text

      • John Peck
      Pages 3-28

    3. Constructing a basic analysis

      • John Peck
      Pages 29-43

    4. Looking at aspects of a novel

      • John Peck
      Pages 44-60

    5. Coping with different kinds of novel

      • John Peck
      Pages 61-80

    6. Tackling a long and difficult novel

      • John Peck
      Pages 81-96

    7. Writing an essay

      • John Peck
      Pages 97-110

    8. Writing a more complicated essay

      • John Peck
      Pages 111-118

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. New approaches

      • John Peck
      Pages 121-144

    3. New readings

      • John Peck
      Pages 145-179

    4. New novels

      • John Peck
      Pages 180-201

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 202-206
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About this book

How to Study a Novel has long been established as the one book about the novel that every student of literature at school or university needs to read. In a series of clearly written, eminently practical chapters, John Peck takes the reader through a set of logical steps that show him how to respond to, interpret and develop his own view of a novel and how to present that response in an effective essay. This thoroughly revised and expanded Second Edition has three new chapters taking this process one step further, showing how to make use of the new critical thinking that has swept through literary criticism in recent years.
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About the author

John Peck is now retired and was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK. With Martin Coyle he edits the Key Concepts series for Palgrave Macmillan.
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