British Fiction After Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403986428 ISBN 13: 9781403986429

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.

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About the Author:

GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK BERNARD BERGONZI Emeritus Professor of English at Warwick University, UK SARA CRANGLE Research fellow at Queen's College, University of Cambridge, UK ANDRZEJ GASIOREK Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK STEVEN JACOBI Full-time writer GREG LONDE PhD student at Princeton University, USA MARINA MACKAY Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St Louis, USA PAUL MAGRS Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK KEVIN MCCARRON Reader in American Literature at Roehampton University, London, UK ELIZABETH MASLEN Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK ROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN MEPHAM Recently retired from teaching philosophy and English literature at Kingston University, UK NEIL REEVE Teaches at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK VICTOR SAGE Professor of Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK JEREMY TREGLOWN Professor of English at Warwick University, UK and the biographer of V.S. Pritchett JAMES WOOD Teaches at Harvard University, USA

Review:

'[MacKay and Stonebridge's] brilliant understanding of the conditions of the novel after modernism has allowed them to revive this 'distant dream'. [...] This collection [...] offers a new vision of late modernity. It effectively explains the 'filmic narrative,' the montage and pastiche techniques.' - The European English Messenger

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1403986428
• ISBN 13: 9781403986429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 233
• Editor: Marina MacKay, Lyndsey Stonebridge