The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940
Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English; 7;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 February 2016
- ISBN 9780198749394
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages624 pages
- Size 252x186x38 mm
- Weight 1227 g
- Language English 60
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Short description:
Volume Seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction.
MoreLong description:
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 and tendencies.
This volume offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction. It begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction titles and have changed completely the relationship between authors, publishers, the novel and the reader. The collection is made up of thirty-four chapters by leading scholars in the field who detail the impact of global warfare on the novel from the Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between sexuality, gender and different periods of women's writing; a broad range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national, class and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the children's novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the novel to come.
a fascinating compendium of a lot of very lifelike activity from British and Irish novelists over the past seventy years
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Life and Death of the Post-War Novel
Part 1: 1940-1973: Key Figures and Contexts
The Material History of the Novel I: 1940-1973
Fiction during the Second World War
The Question of Evil: Neo-Christianity and the Novel
Working Class Fictions
The Novel and the End of Empire
Migrant Writing
Women's Fiction after the War
The Movement towards Englishness
The Continuities of Late Modernism: Before and after Beckett
Comedy, Class and Nation
In the Wake of Joyce: Irish Writing after 1939
Judging the Distance: Fiction with Europe in Mind
Part 2: Genres/Subgenres
Cinematic and Televisual Fiction
The Novel as History
The Novel Sequence
Novel, Novella, Short Story
Spies, Detectives and Heroes: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
The Children's Novel
Queers, Chaps, Chicks and Lads
Jewish Fictions
The Regional and the Global
Dystopian Science Fiction and the Return of the Gothic
Part 3: 1973-Present: Key Figures and Contexts
The Material History of the Novel II 1973-Present
Fiction and Trauma from the Second World War to 9/11
Decentring Englishness
The Feminist Novel
Black British and British Asian Fiction
A Plurinational Literature? Nationalism in British and Northern Irish Fiction Since 1970
The New Scottish Renaissance?
Ireland and Europe after 1973
Welsh Fiction: 1979, 1997 and after
Part IV: Approaching the Twenty-first Century Novel
Twenty-First Century Fiction
The Future of the Novel
