The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The World Novel in English to 1950
- ISBN-10
- 0199609934
- ISBN-13
- 9780199609932
- Series
- The Oxford History of the Novel in English
- Category
- Books and reading
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-04
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
Description
This volume in The Oxford History of the Novel in English series discusses novels written in English throughout the world except for Britain, Ireland and the United States in the period up to 1950. The book contains survey essays and essays on major writers, as well as essays on book history and publishing and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The book, then, contains essays on the development of the non-metropolitan novel throughout the British worldfrom the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. This is the period of empire and resistance to empire, of settler confidence giving way to doubt, and of the rise of indigenous and post-colonialnationalisms that would shape the world after World War II.
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