Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature

List of Entries

Volume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Ackroyd, Peter
• Aldington, Richard
• Amis, Kingsley
• Amis, Martin
• Angry Young Man Fiction
• Awards and Prizes

B

• Bainbridge, Beryl
• Ballard, J. G.
• Banville, John
• Barker, Pat
• Barnes, Julian
• Beckett, Samuel
• Bennett, Arnold
• Berger, John
• Bolger, Dermot
• Bowen, Elizabeth
• Boyd, William
• Brooke-Rose, Christine
• Brookner, Anita
• Byatt, A. S.

C

• Campus Novel
• Carswell, Catherine
• Carter, Angela
• Cary, Joyce
• Censorship and the Novel
• Chicklit and Ladlit
• Children’s and Young Adult Fiction
• Coe, Jonathan
• Colonial Fiction
• Compton-Burnett, Ivy
• Conrad, Joseph
• Crace, Jim
• Critical Theory and the Novel

D

• Doyle, Roddy
• Drabble, Margaret
• Durrell, Lawrence

E

• Edwardian Fiction

F

• Fantasy Fiction
• Farrell, J. G.
• Feminist Fiction
• Figes, Eva
• The Film Industry and Fiction
• Firbank, Ronald
• Fitzgerald, Penelope
• Ford, Ford Madox
• Forster, E. M.
• Fowles, John
• Frayn, Michael

G

• Galloway, Janice
• Galsworthy, John
• Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
• Globalization and the Novel
• Golding, William
• Graves, Robert
• Gray, Alasdair
• Green, Henry
• Greene, Graham
• Gunn, Neil M.

H

• Hamilton, Patrick
• Historical Fiction
• Hollinghurst, Alan
• Huxley, Aldous

I

• Irish Fiction
• Isherwood, Christopher
• Ishiguro, Kazuo

J

• James, P. D.
• Jenkins, Robin
• Jewish Fiction
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
• Johnson, B. S.
• Joyce, James

K

• Kelman, James
• Kennedy, A. L.
• Kiely, Benedict
• Kureishi, Hanif

L

• Lawrence, D. H.
• Lehmann, Rosamond
• Lewis, Wyndham
• Lively, Penelope
• London in Fiction
• Lowry, Malcolm

M

• Macaulay, Rose
• Manning, Olivia
• Mantel, Hilary
• Maugham, W. Somerset
• McCabe, Patrick
• McEwan, Ian
• McGahern, John
• McLiam Wilson, Robert
• Mo, Timothy
• Modernist Fiction
• Moore, Brian
• Murdoch, Iris
• Mystery/Detective/Crime Fiction 

N

• No Entries

O

• O’Brien, Edna
• O’Brien, Flann
• O’Connor, Frank
• O’Flaherty, Liam
• Orwell, George

P

• Phillips, Caryl
• Politics and the Novel
• Postcolonial Fiction of the African Diaspora
• Postcolonial Fiction of the British South Asian Diaspora
• Postcolonial Fiction of the West Indian/Caribbean Diaspora
• Postmodernist Fiction
• Powell, Anthony
• Priestley, J. B.
• The Publishing Industry: The Rise of the Paperback
• Pym, Barbara

Q

• Queer/Alternative Sexualities in Fiction

R

• Richardson, Dorothy

S

• Science Fiction
• Scott, Paul
• Scottish Fiction
• Self, Will
• Sinclair, Iain
• Sinclair, May
• Smith, Zadie
• Spark, Muriel
• Storey, David
• Swift, Graham

T

• Thomas, D. M.
• Tóibín, Colm
• Trevor, William

U

• Upward, Edward
• Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

V

• No Entries

W

• Warner, Alan
• Waugh, Evelyn
• Weldon, Fay
• Wells, H. G.
• Welsh Fiction in English
• Welsh, Irvine
• West, Rebecca
• Wilson, Angus
• Winterson, Jeanette
• Wodehouse, P. G. 
• Woolf, Virginia
• Working-Class Fiction
• World War I in Fiction
• World War II in Fiction

X

• No Entries

Y

• No Entries

Z

• No Entries

Volume II: Twentieth-Century American Fiction

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Acker, Kathy
• Agee, James
• Alexie, Sherman
• Algren, Nelson
• Anaya, Rudolfo
• Anderson, Sherwood
• Auster, Paul
• The Avant-Garde Novel

B

• Baker, Nicholson
• Baldwin, James
• Banks, Russell
• Barnes, Djuna
• Barth, John
• Barthelme, Donald
• Bellow, Saul
• Berger, Thomas
• Border Fictions
• Boyle, Kay
• Brautigan, Richard
• Buck, Pearl S.
• Bukowski, Charles
• Burroughs, William
• Butler, Octavia

C

• Cain, James M. 
• Canfield, Dorothy
• Carver, Raymond
• Castillo, Ana
• Cather, Willa
• Chabon, Michael
• Chandler, Raymond
• Cheever, John
• Chesnutt, Charles W.
• Cisneros, Sandra
• The City in Fiction
• Coover, Robert

D

• Dahlberg, Edward
• Danticat, Edwidge
• Davenport, Guy
• Delany, Samuel
• DeLillo, Don
• Dick, Philip K.
• Didion, Joan
• Dixon, Stephen
• Doctorow, E. L.
• Dos Passos, John
• Dreiser, Theodore
• Du Bois, W. E. B.
• Ducornet, Rikki
• Dybek, Stuart

E

• Elkin, Stanley
• Ellison, Ralph
• Ellroy, James
• Erdrich, Louise
• Ethnicity and Fiction
• Eugenides, Jeffrey
• Everett, Percival
• Expatriate Fiction

F

• Farrell, James T.
• Faulkner, William
• Fauset, Jessie Redmon
• Ferber, Edna
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Foer, Jonathan Safran
• Ford, Richard
• Frank, Waldo
• Franzen, Jonathan

G

• Gaddis, William
• Gaines, Ernest J.
• Gardner, John
• Gass, William H.
• Gender and the Novel
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
• Glasgow, Ellen
• Gold, Mike
• Gordon, Mary

H

• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
• Hagedorn, Jessica
• Hammett, Dashiell
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Harrison, Jim
• Hawkes, John
• Heller, Joseph
• Hemingway, Ernest
• Herbst, Josephine
• Highsmith, Patricia
• Himes, Chester
• Historiographic Metafiction
• Howard, Maureen
• Hughes, Langston
• Hurston, Zora Neale

I

• Irving, John

J

• James, Henry
• Johnson, Charles
• Johnson, Denis
• Jones, Edward P.
• Jones, Gayl

K

• Kennedy, William
• Kerouac, Jack
• Kingston, Maxine Hong
• Kosinski, Jerzy

L

• Larsen, Nella
• Lee, Chang-rae
• Le Guin, Ursula K.
• Lethem, Jonathan
• Lewis, Sinclair
• The Little Magazines
• London, Jack

M

• Mailer, Norman
• Major, Clarence
• Malamud, Bernard
• Markson, David
• Marshall, Paule
• Maso, Carole
• Mathews, Harry
• Maupin, Armistead
• McCarthy, Cormac
• McCarthy, Mary
• McCullers, Carson
• McElroy, Joseph
• McKay, Claude
• Miller, Henry
• Millhauser, Steven
• Minimalist/Maximalist Fiction
• Modern Fiction in Hollywood
• Modernist Fiction
• Momaday, N. Scott
• Moore, Lorrie
• Morris, Wright
• Morrison, Toni

N

• Nabokov, Vladimir
• Naturalist Fiction
• Naylor, Gloria
• Noir Fiction
• Norris, Frank
• The Novel and War

O

• Oates, Joyce Carol
• O’Connor, Flannery
• Olsen, Tillie
• Ortiz, Simon J.
• Ozick, Cynthia

P

• Paley, Grace
• Parker, Dorothy
• Percy, Walker
• Petry, Ann
• Phillips, Jayne Anne
• Piercy, Marge
• Porter, Katherine Anne
• Postmodernist Fiction
• Powell, Dawn
• Powers, Richard
• Price, Reynolds
• Proulx, Annie
• Purdy, James
• Pynchon, Thomas

Q

• Queer Modernism

R

• Rand, Ayn
• Rechy, John
• Reed, Ishmael
• The Road Novel
• Robinson, Marilynne
• Roth, Henry
• Roth, Philip
• Russ, Joanna

S

• Salinger, J. D.
• Schuyler, George S.
• Scott, Joanna
• Selby, Hubert Jr.
• Silko, Leslie Marmon
• Sinclair, Upton
• Singer, Isaac Bashevis
• Smiley, Jane
• Social-Realist Fiction
• Sontag, Susan
• Sorrentino, Gilbert
• The Southern Novel
• Speculative Fiction
• Spiegelman, Art
• Stegner, Wallace
• Stein, Gertrude
• Steinbeck, John
• Stephenson, Neal
• Stone, Robert
• Styron, William

T

• Tan, Amy
• Television and Fiction
• Thompson, Jim
• Toomer, Jean
• Traven, B.
• Tyler, Anne

U

• Updike, John
• Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

V

• Van Vechten, Carl
• Vidal, Gore
• Viramontes, Helena María
• Vizenor, Gerald
• Vollmann, William T.
• Vonnegut, Kurt

W

• Walker, Alice
• Wallace, David Foster
• Warren, Robert Penn
• Welch, James
• Welty, Eudora Alice
• West, Nathanael
• West, Paul
• Wharton, Edith
• White, Edmund
• Whitehead, Colson
• Wideman, John Edgar
• Wilder, Thornton
• Wolfe, Thomas
• Wolfe, Tom
• WPA and Popular Front Fiction
• Wright, Richard
• Wright, Stephen

X

• No Entries

Y

• Yezierska, Anzia
• Young, Marguerite

Z

• No Entries

Volume III: Twentieth-Century World Fiction

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. F
7. G
8. H
9. I
10. J
11. K
12. L
13. M
14. N
15. O
16. P
17. Q
18. R
19. S
20. T
21. U
22. V
23. W
24. X
25. Y
26. Z

A

• Abrahams, Peter
• Achebe, Chinua
• Aidoo, Ama Ata
• Ali, Ahmed
• Amadi, Elechi
• Anand, Mulk Raj
• Anderson, Jessica
• Anthony, Michael
• Antoni, Robert
• Arasanayagam, Jean
• Armah, Ayi Kwei
• Aslam, Nadeem
• Astley, Thea
• Atwood, Margaret
• Australian Fiction
• Awards and Prizes
• Awoonor, Kofi

B

• Bail, Murray
• Baratham, Gopal
• Bissoondath, Neil
• Black British Fiction
• Boyd, Martin
• Brand, Dionne
• Brink, André
• Brodber, Erna

C

• Callaghan, Morley
• Canadian Fiction
• Carey, Peter
• Censorship and Fiction
• Chandra, Vikram
• Chaudhuri, Amit
• Children's and Young Adult Fiction
• The City in Fiction
• Clarke, Austin
• Cliff, Michelle
• Coetzee, J. M.
• Collins, Merle
• Coupland, Douglas
• Critical Theory and Fiction

D

• Dabydeen, David
• Dangarembga, Tsitsi
• Davies, Robertson
• de Lisser, Herbert G.
• Desai, Anita
• Desani, G. V.
• Detective/Crime Fiction
• Duggan, Maurice
• Duncan, Sara Jeannette

E

• East African Fiction
• East Asian Fiction
• Ekwensi, Cyprian
• Emecheta, Buchi
• English Studies, the Academy, and World Fiction

F

• Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Speculative Fiction
• Farah, Nuruddin
• Feminism and Fiction
• Fernando, Lloyd
• Fictional Responses to Canonical English Narratives
• Film/Television Adaptation and Fiction
• Findley, Timothy
• Frame, Janet
• Franklin, Miles

G

• Gallant, Mavis
• Gee, Maurice
• Ghose, Zulfikar
• Ghosh, Amitav
• Gibson, William
• Gilroy, Beryl
• Gooneratne, Yasmine
• Goonewardene, James
• Gordimer, Nadine
• Grace, Patricia
• Grenville, Kate
• Grove, Frederick Philip
• Gunesekera, Romesh

H

• Harris, Wilson
• Head, Bessie
• Heath, Roy
• Herbert, Xavier
• Historical Fiction
• Hodgins, Jack
• Hosain, Attia
• Hospital, Janette Turner
• Hulme, Keri
• Humor and Satire

I

• Ihimaera, Witi
• Indian Fiction
• Indigenous Fiction

J

• James, C. L. R.
• Jin, Ha
• Joaquin, Nick
• Johnston, Wayne
• Jolley, Elizabeth
• Jose, F. Sionil
• Joshi, Arun

K

• Keneally, Thomas
• Kincaid, Jamaica
• King, Thomas
• Kogawa, Joy
• Kroetsch, Robert

L

• La Guma, Alex
• Lamming, George
• Laurence, Margaret
• Leacock, Stephen
• Lessing, Doris
• Lim, Catherine
• Lim, Suchen Christine
• Lovelace, Earl

M

• MacLennan, Hugh
• MacLeod, Alistair
• Mais, Roger
• Malgonkar, Manohar
• Malouf, David
• Maniam, K. S.
• Mansfield, Katherine
• Maracle, Lee
• Marechera, Dambudzo
• Markandaya, Kamala
• Marlatt, Daphne
• Melville, Pauline
• Migration, Diaspora, and Exile in Fiction
• Miller, Alex
• Min, Anchee
• Mistry, Rohinton
• Mitchell, W. O.
• Mittelholzer, Edgar
• Montgomery, L. M.
• Moorhouse, Frank
• Mphalele, Es'kia
• Mudrooroo
• Mukherjee, Bharati
• Munro, Alice

N

• Naipaul, V. S.
• Narayan, R. K.
• New Zealand Fiction
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• Nkosi, Lewis
• Nwapa, Flora

O

• Okara, Gabriel
• Okri, Ben
• Ondaatje, Michael

P

• Pakistani Fiction
• Paton, Alan
• Politics/Activism and Fiction
• Postcolonialism and Fiction
• Prichard, Katharine Susannah
• The Publishing Industry and Fiction

Q

• Queer/Alternative Sexualities in Fiction

R

• Rao, Raja
• Realism/Magic Realism
• Reid, V. S.
• Rhys, Jean
• Richards, David Adams
• Richardson, Henry Handel
• Richler, Mordecai
• Riley, Joan
• Ross, Sinclair
• Roy, Arundhati
• Rushdie, Salman

S

• Sahgal, Nayantara
• Salkey, Andrew
• Sarachchandra, Ediriwira
• Sargeson, Frank
• Saro-Wiwa, Ken
• Scott, Kim
• Sealy, I. Allan
• Selvon, Sam
• Senior, Olive
• Seth, Vikram
• Shadbolt, Maurice
• Shields, Carol
• Sidhwa, Bapsi
• Singh, Khushwant
• South Pacific Fiction
• Southeast Asian Fiction
• Southern African Fiction
• Soyinka, Wole
• Sri Lankan Fiction
• Stead, Christina
• Stow, Randolph

T

• Tharoor, Shashi
• Tlali, Miriam
• Tutuola, Amos

U

• Urquhart, Jane

V

• Vanderhaeghe, Guy
• Vassanji, M. G.
• Vera, Yvonne

W

• Wendt, Albert
• West African Fiction
• West Indian Fiction
• White, Patrick
• Wiebe, Rudy
• Wilson, Ethel
• Winton, Tim
• Wiseman, Adele

X

• No Entries

Y

• No Entries

Z

• Zameenzad, Adam