Description

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 &#786The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre&#700, &#786The Novel in the Economy`, &#786Genres`, &#786Gender` (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and &#786The Burden of Representation&#700 (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.