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

Published by De Gruyter 2017

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

Edited by: Christoph Reinfandt

Volume 5 in the series Handbooks of English and American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110369489

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About this book

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 Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy’, ̒Genres’, ̒Gender’ (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.

Author / Editor information

Christoph Reinfandt, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Reviews

"Fünf Beiträge versuchen, das weite Feld des englischen Romans einzukreisen, indem sie systematisch bestimmte Aspekte aufbereiten und dabei auch viele Bezüge zu den später im Buch abgedruckten Interpretationen herstellen (auf die dankenswerter mittels Querverweis aufmerksam gemacht wird). Jeder Beitrag enthält für die grobe Orientierung eine englische Zusammenfassung sowie Schlagwörter, an denen sich leicht ersehen läßt, welche Themen hauptsächlich verhandelt werden. [...] Das alles ist hier sehr gelungen, und nicht zuletzt die von allen Beiträgern übernommene Struktur macht das Handbuch zu einem vorzüglichen Informationsmittel, das sich unter Anglisten einer regen Nutzung erfreuen sollte."
Till Kinzel in: Informationsmittel (IFB) # 5421 http://www.informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de/showfile.php?id=8819

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0. Introduction Christoph Reinfandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Systematic Questions
1. The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre Christoph Bode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. The Novel in the Economy, 1900 to the Present Alissa G. Karl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. Genres: The Novel between Artistic Ambition and Popularity Christoph Reinfandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
4. Gender: Performing Politics in Prose? Performativity – Masculinity – Feminism – Queer Ingrid Hotz-Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
5. The Burden of Representation: Reflections on Class, Ethnicity and the Twentieth-Century British Novel Dirk Wiemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part II. Close Readings
6. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902) Russell West-Pavlov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
7. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) Dirk Vanderbeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
8. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) Ralf Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
9. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) Timo Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
10. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) Anya Heise-von der Lippe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
11. Henry Green, Party Going (1939) Ingo Berensmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
12. Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951–1958) Dirk Van Hulle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
13. Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) Lars Eckstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
14. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) Alice Ridout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
15. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) Brooke Lenz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
16. B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) Jens Martin Gurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
17. J. G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970–1978) Astrid Erll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
18. William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979) Christoph Reinfandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
19. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) Miriam Wallraven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
20. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) Madelena Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
21. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989) Tatjana Pavlov-West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	424
22. A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) Lena Steveker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
23. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995–2000) Gerold Sedlmayr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
24. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) Michael Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
25. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) Dirk Wiemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	498
26. China Miéville, Embassytown (2011) Raphael Zähringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	518
27. Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009–) Andrew James Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	536
28. Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015) Christoph Reinfandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	592
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	603

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 604
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
Keywords: History of the English Novel (1900-); Cultural History; Politics; Media; Contemporary Literature

eBook

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783110369489

Hardcover

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783110374469