Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries /

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / / Christoph Reinfandt.

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The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distin...

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Reinfandt, Christoph,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (613 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors' Preface
  • Contents
  • 0. Introduction / Reinfandt, Christoph
  • Part I. Systematic Questions
  • 1. The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre / Bode, Christoph
  • 2. The Novel in the Economy, 1900 to the Present / Karl, Alissa G.
  • 3. Genres: The Novel between Artistic Ambition and Popularity / Reinfandt, Christoph
  • 4. Gender: Performing Politics in Prose? Performativity - Masculinity - Feminism - Queer / Hotz-Davies, Ingrid
  • 5. The Burden of Representation: Reflections on Class, Ethnicity and the Twentieth-Century British Novel / Wiemann, Dirk
  • Part II. Close Readings
  • 6. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902) / West-Pavlov, Russell
  • 7. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) / Vanderbeke, Dirk
  • 8. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) / Schneider, Ralf
  • 9. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) / Müller, Timo
  • 10. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) / Lippe, Anya Heise-von der
  • 11. Henry Green, Party Going (1939) / Berensmeyer, Ingo
  • 12. Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951-1958) / Hulle, Dirk Van
  • 13. Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) / Eckstein, Lars
  • 14. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) / Ridout, Alice
  • 15. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) / Lenz, Brooke
  • 16. B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) / Gurr, Jens Martin
  • 17. J. G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970-1978) / Erll, Astrid
  • 18. William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979) / Reinfandt, Christoph
  • 19. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) / Wallraven, Miriam
  • 20. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) / Gonzalez, Madelena
  • 21. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989) / Pavlov-West, Tatjana
  • 22. A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) / Steveker, Lena
  • 23. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995-2000) / Sedlmayr, Gerold
  • 24. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) / Meyer, Michael
  • 25. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) / Wiemann, Dirk
  • 26. China Miéville, Embassytown (2011) / Zähringer, Raphael
  • 27. Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009-) / Johnston, Andrew James
  • 28. Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015) / Reinfandt, Christoph
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names
  • List of Contributors

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