Introduction. The novel in Europe, 1600-1900 / Michael Bell --

1. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote: romance and picaresque / Edwin Williamson --

2. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): journalism, myth and verisimilitude / Cynthia Wall --

3. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761): the epistolary novel / Thomas Keymer --

4. Henry Fielding (1707-1754): the comic epic in prose / Thomas Lockwood --

5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): the novel of sensibility / Timothy O'Hagan --

6. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768): the fiction of sentiment / Michael Bell --

7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): the German Bildungsroman / Martin Swales --

8. Walter Scott (1771-1832): the historical novel / Susan Manning --

9. Stendhal (1783-1842): romantic irony / Ann Jefferson --

10. Mary Shelley (1797-1851): the gothic novel / David Punter --

11. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): 'realism' and authority / Michael Tilby --

12. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Englishman and European / John Bowen --

13. George Eliot (1819-1880): reality and sympathy / John Rignall --

14. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): realism and aestheticism / Timothy Unwin --

15. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881): 'fantastic realism' / Sarah J. Young --

16. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910): art and truth / Donna Tussing Orwin --

17. Émile Zola (1840-1902): naturalism / Brian Nelson --

18. Henry James (1843-1916): Henry James's Europe / Angus Wrenn --

19. Marcel Proust (1871-1922): a modernist novel of time / Marion Schmid --

20. Thomas Mann (1875-1955): modernism and ideas / Ritchie Robertson --

21. James Joyce (1882-1941): modernism and language / Christopher Butler --

22. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): re-forming the novel / Laura Marcus --

23. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989): language, narrative, authority / Leslie Hill --

24. Milan Kundera (1929- ): the idea of the novel / Rajendra A. Chitnis --

Conclusion. The European novel after 1900 / Michael Bell.