- Paperback: 345 pages
- Publisher: Chester Academic Press; First edition (29 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905929382
- ISBN-13: 978-1905929382
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 767,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of the most illuminating commentary written on the English language academic novel during the last forty years, together with new essays especially commissioned for this volume. As well as general thematic essays, there are discussions of a number of individual novelists: Vladimir Nabokov, Randall Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, Kingsley Amis, Alison Lurie, Robertson Davies, David Lodge, Howard Jacobson. Contributors are: Adam Begley, Ian Carter, Benjamin DeMott, Aida Edemariam, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Hobsbaum, J. P. Kenyon, David Lodge, Merritt Moseley, Dale Salwak, Samuel Schuman, J. A. Sutherland, Glyn Turton, Chris Walsh, Susan Watkins, George Watson.
About the Author
Merritt Moseley is Professor of Literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of critical books on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Julian Barnes and Michael Frayn and has edited four volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists Since 1960, and, most recently, the DLB volume on Booker Prize Winners.
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The essays assembled in the following pages examine the academic subgenre of the modern British and American novel. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
The essays assembled in the following pages examine the academic subgenre of the modern British and American novel. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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