This volume offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction. It begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction titles and have changed completely the relationship between authors, publishers, the novel and the reader. The collection is made up of thirty-four chapters by leading scholars in the field who detail the impact of global warfare on the novel from the Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between sexuality, gender and different periods of women's writing; a broad range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national, class and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the children's novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the novel to come.
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Vol. 14 of The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1984). The Letters, 1813–1843. Thomas Woodson et al. (eds.). Vol. 15 of The Centenary Edition of the ...
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world?
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Vol. 14 of The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1984). The Letters, 1813–1843. Thomas Woodson et al. (eds.). Vol. 15 of The Centenary Edition of the ...
The American Novel 1870-1940 Priscilla Wald, Michael A. Elliott ... but Wells served up her propaganda harsh and raw, while bestselling novels arise from a longer preparation that gently braises their subjects for easy consumption.
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present.
Chronicles the lives of the two branches of a European and American Italian family through 100 years.
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. This guide looks at how the Victorian novel has been read over the past hundred years.
The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.