The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Patrick O'Donnell,David W. Madden,Justus Nieland,John Clement Ball

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
Format
Hardback
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 December 2010
Pages
1584
ISBN
9781405192446

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Patrick O'Donnell,David W. Madden,Justus Nieland,John Clement Ball

This Encyclopedia is an indispensible reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over 1 million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. * Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars * Arranged in 3 volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field * Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ng g Wa Thiong'o) and their key works * Covers the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avante garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field (censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, Diaspora, and exile)

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