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Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 19001950

English · Paperback / Softback

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A comprehensive overview of both modernist and popular British fiction of the first half of the twentieth century.

List of contents










1. British narrative fiction in terms of 'period' and 'treatments'; 2. The artist as critic: ideas of fiction, 1890-1938; 3. Seeing modernism through; 4. British fiction amid non-fictional discourses in the era of modernism; 5. Entertaining fictions; 6. Collective welfare and warfare: British fiction 1936-1950.

About the author

Robert L. Caserio is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of the English Novel (Cambridge, 2012), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel (Cambridge, 2009). His many publications include Plot, Story, and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period (1979) and the Perkins Prize-winning The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory (1998).

Summary

This comprehensive Introduction is designed for students, scholars, and ambitious general readers. In addition to discussing over one hundred writers in many genres, including popular, it analyses key texts in detail, exploring British modernist fiction and thought, and relating those to history, social change, and the nature of fiction itself.

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