Reading Fiction: Opening the Text

This volume contains readings of 24 widely-taught fictional texts from "Robinson Crusoe" to "The Buddha of Suburbia".

Offering a wide range of English literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, this book illustrates a diverse range of approaches to the close reading of prose fiction.

The book provides an overview of the modes of fiction since the 1700s and a guide to the methods and techniques of close reading.