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Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 3110374463, 9783110374469

Table of contents :
Editors’ Preface
Contents
0. Introduction
Part I. Systematic Questions
1. The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre
2. The Novel in the Economy, 1900 to the Present
3. Genres: The Novel between Artistic Ambition and Popularity
4. Gender: Performing Politics in Prose? Performativity – Masculinity – Feminism – Queer
5. The Burden of Representation: Reflections on Class, Ethnicity and the Twentieth-Century British Novel
Part II. Close Readings
6. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902)
7. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
8. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
9. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
10. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
11. Henry Green, Party Going (1939)
12. Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951–1958)
13. Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
14. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962)
15. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)
16. B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969)
17. J. G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970–1978)
18. William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979)
19. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984)
20. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
21. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989)
22. A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990)
23. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995–2000)
24. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
25. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004)
26. China Miéville, Embassytown (2011)
27. Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009–)
28. Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015)
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
List of Contributors

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