Cheyette Boxall

Gebundenes Buch

OXF HIS NOV ENG BRIT IR 1940 VOL7 OHNE C

Beschreibung

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 fieldwho 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 connectionsbetween 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.

Autor

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2006), Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum, 2009) and Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction (CUP, 2013). He has edited a number of collections, including Thinking Poetry and Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, and a recent Faber edition of Beckett's novel Malone Dies. He is also the editor of Textual Practice and 1001 Books. His most recent book, The Value of the Novel, is forthcoming with CUP in 2015. He is currently working on a book entitled The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life. Bryan Cheyette is Chair of Modern Literature at the University of Reading. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Muriel Spark: The Writer and Her Work (2000) and Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (2014). He is the editor of six previous books, most notably Between 'Race' and Culture (1996), Modernity, Culture and 'the Jew' (1997), and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland (1998). He is currently working on a biography of Israel Zangwill and he has reviewed contemporary fiction for the TLS, The Independent and the Guardian.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of the Novel in English
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1219g
• ISBN-13: 9780198749394
• ISBN-10: 0198749392
• Artikelnr.: 44471591