A reader's guide to the twentieth-century novel in Britain
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A reader's guide to the twentieth-century novel in Britain
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 149-167
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Surveying the development of the novel in Britain throughout the 20th century, this guide includes comentary on all the major novelists of the period, as well as a large number of the less well known. Introducing the reader to a range of novels in this way, the book also locates the work of individual authors within the evolving literary history, and the wider contexts of social, political and cultural change, which have shaped writing in the 20th century.
Table of Contents
- Elephant and sandcastle
- the Edwardian years
- a myriad impressions
- the modernist novel
- the weather in the streets
- thirties fiction
- shadows in Eden - the war years to the fifties
- crossroads - the sixties to the eighties
- margins and millennium - towards 2000.
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