Patrick Parrinder is an academic, formerly Professor of English at the University of Reading. He retired in 2008. Parringer was educated at Leighton Park School and King’s College, Cambridge
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Nation and Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day
What is “English” about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel’s profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness?