The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 4 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the long novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' of the 1930s. It explores both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity.

Zusatztext This is a book all university libraries should have for reference and enjoyable instruction. Informationen zum Autor Patrick Parrinder is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Reading and General Editor of The Oxford History of the Novel in English. He is the author of many books, including Shadows of the Future: H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Prophecy, which won the 1996 Eaton Award, and Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. He was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow from 2001-4, and currently holds and Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for research in Book History in the period 1880-1940.Andrzej Gasiorek is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He was written widely on modernism and on post-war British fiction. He is a co-editor of the journal Modernist Cultures and author of Post War British Fiction: Realism and After (1995), Wyndham Lewis and Modernism (2004) and J.G. Ballard (2005). He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms with Peter Brooker, Deborah Parsons, and Andrew Thacker (2010). Klappentext Volume 4 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the long novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' of the 1930s. It explores both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. Zusammenfassung Volume 4 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the long novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' of the 1930s. It explores both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Part I: The Fiction Industry 1880-1940 1: Andrew Nash: The Production of the Novel, 1880-1940 2: Catherine Seville: Novelists, Literary Property, and Copyright 3: Nicola Wilson: Libraries, Reading Patterns, and Censorship Part II: The Novel 1880-1914 4: Max Saunders: Fiction as an Art: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford 5: David Gervais: From Balzac to Proust: English Novelists and Foreign Novels 6: Simon J. James: Realism and the Fiction of Modern Life: From Meredith to Forster 7: Patrick Parrinder: Metropolitan Fiction: Slums, Suburbs, and Tales of Mean Streets 8: William Greenslade: Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England' 9: Angelique Richardson: New Women and the New Fiction 10: David Glover: Masters of Male Romance 11: David Goldie: Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century 12: Clive Bloom: Bestselling Fiction Before and After the First World War Part III: Sub-generic and Specialized Fictional Forms 13: Chris Baldick: Political Novels and Utopian Romances 14: Christopher Pittard: The English Detective Story 15: Nicholas Daly: Adventure Novels and Thrillers 16: Roger Luckhurst: Science Fiction and Fantasy 17: David Punter: Gothic and Supernatural Fiction 18: Norma Clarke: The Children's Novel 19: Clare Hanson: Short Stories and Short Fiction Part IV: The Novel 1914-1940 20: John McCourt: James Joyce 21: Bonnie Kime Scott: Virginia Woolf and Consciousness 22: Fiona Becket: D. H. Lawrence and Metaphysical Fiction 23: Peter Brooker: Modernism and the Fiction of the City 24: David Trotter and Andrew Shail: Cinema and the Novel 25: John Marx: The Novel and the Empire 26: Vincent Sherry: The Novel and the First World War 27: Elizabeth Maslen: Women's Novels Between the Wars 28: Len Platt: Aristocratic Comedy and Intellectual Satire

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