Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy , ̒Genres , ̒Gender  (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives. (Source: Google Books API)