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The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day
Patrick Parrinder
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Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955
Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker
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Volume 2 1550-1660
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940
Edited by Patrick Parrinder and Andrzej Gasiorek
656 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-955933-6
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Hardback
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09 December 2010
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- The most comprehensive and authoritative account available of the novel in English in the period 1880-1940
- Thirty-six specially written contributions by an international team of experts
- Extensive, balanced coverage of a vast range of topics
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.
The 36 expert contributors to Volume 4 trace the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the cumbersome
3-volume novels of the 1880s to the 'paperback revolution' in the late 1930s. It looks at the intense debates over the nature and purpose of the novel in the period, the development of new popular sub-genres, and the stratification of the readership of fiction. In a period characterized by huge political and economic upheavals and wholesale revisions of personal morality and sexual and linguistic taboos, the volume traces both the process of modernist experimentation and the work of novelists who registered the social and cultural impact of modernity. The topics covered include national (Irish, Scottish, and Welsh), regional, and women's fiction; the influence of the European novel, of the cinema, and the growth of the modern city; the impact of the Empire, class-consciousness, and the
First World War; and such specialized forms as the children's novel, detective stories, and thriller, science fiction and fantasy, and the short story.Readership: Students and scholars of British and Irish literature.
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Edited by Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, and Andrzej Gasiorek, Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham Contributors:
Jane Aaron, University of Glamorgan
Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
John Baxendale, Sheffield Hallam University
Fiona Becket, University of Leeds
Clive Bloom, Middlesex University
Peter Brooker, University of Sussex
Norma Clarke, Kingston University
Cairns Craig, Aberdeen University
Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin
Maud Ellmann,
University of Notre Dame
Andrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham
David Gervais, University of Reading
David Glover, University of Southampton
David Goldie, University of Strathclyde
William Greenslade, University of the West of England
Clare Hanson, University of Southampton
Christopher Hilliard, University of Sydney
Simon J. James, University of Durham
Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London
John McCourt, University of Trieste
John Marx, University of California, Davis
Jesse Matz, Kenyon College
Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University
Elizabeth Maslen, Queen Mary, University of London
Andrew Nash,
University of Reading
Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading
Christopher Pittard, University of Portsmouth
Len Platt, Goldsmiths College, University of London
David Punter, University of Bristol
Angelique Richardson, University of Exeter
Max Saunders, King's College London
Bonnie Kime Scott, San Diego State University
Catherine Seville, University of Cambridge
Andrew Shail, St Anne's College, Oxford
Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St Louis
David Trotter, University of Cambridge
Nicola Wilson, University of Reading
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"The choice of scholars is exciting and in itself a sign of editorial wisdom. Every prospective reader will have a personal list of must-reads ... it succeeds particularly well thanks to editors who clearly know when to intervene and when to let their contributors go where they will, a style of editing not masterful but masterly." - Laurence Davies, Review 19 "This is a book all university libraries should have for reference and enjoyable instruction." - Kate MacDonald, English Literature in Transition
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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
Part V: National and Regional Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
29: Maud Ellmann: The Irish Novel 1914-1940
30: Cairns Craig: The Scottish Novel
31: Jane Aaron: Welsh Fiction
32: Steven Matthews: English Regional Fiction and National Culture
33: Christopher Hilliard: Working-class Fiction
Part VI: The Critical Understanding of Fiction
34: Jesse Matz: Impressionism, Naturalism, and Aestheticism: Novel Theory, 1880-1914
35: John Baxendale: Popular Fiction and the Critique of Mass Culture
36: Andrzej Gasiorek: Inside and Outside the Whale
Composite Bibliography
Index
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