The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
General Editor: Brian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College, USA
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction presents the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Entries cover major writers and their works; the genres and sub-genres of fiction; and the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field.
Arranged into three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, this is an indispensable resource for anyone reading, teaching or researching modern and contemporary literature.
Key Features
- Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words, arranged across 3 volumes
- Written by an international cast of nearly 500 leading scholars
- Features the major writers (such as Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, and Zadie Smith) and their key works
- Covers all genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth-century, including crime fiction, science fiction, chick lit, the noir novel, naturalist fiction, and the avante-garde novel
- Deals with the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field (Angry Young Men fiction, censorship and the novel, globalization and the novel, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, historiographic metafiction, and rewritings of canonical English narratives)
- Online version provides students and researchers with 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
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