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.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940

PARRINDER, Patrick

Gasiorek, Andrzej

Reference

Oxford University Press

Realism is often held to be aesthetically outmoded and philosophically untenable. This new study challenges that view. It explores the fiction of a variety of postwar novelists, identifying a wide range of distinctive responses to the modernist legacy.

Postwar British Fiction: Realism and After

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Hodder Education Publishers

George Orwell feared during the Second World War that the novel was in danger of disappearing as a form. But since 1945 Britain has witnessed the proliferation of diverse modes of fictional writing as well as a range of impressive reflections by practising novelists on the art of fiction. Thismajor new anthology, draws together a variety of novelists' essays and manifestos from the 1940s to the present. It includes some hitherto little-known pieces by writers such as Henry Green, C P Snow, and Wilson Harris; but also contains better known, though still indispensable, statements bywriters such as Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch and William Golding. Very recent essays and interviews by Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Salman Rushdie are also included. This comprehensive anthology not only reveals that the novel is alive and well in Britain but also highlights its excitingheterogeneity in the postwar period.

Post-War British Fiction: Realism and After

History

Edward Arnold

A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. <ul>
<li>A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture</li> <li>Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked</li> <li>The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s</li> </ul>

A History of Modernist Literature (Blackwell History of Literature)

Wiley/Blackwell

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