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

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Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries is written by Christoph Reinfandt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110393360 (ISBN 10) and 9783110393361 (ISBN 13).

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.