Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7, 000 words.
Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel’s relationship to other arts and disciplines.
The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel.
This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.
Зміст
Alphabetical List of Entries vii
List of Entries by Topic ix
Editors xi
Board of Advisors xii
Contributors xiv
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgments xx
The Novel A-Z 1
Index of Novelists 691
General Index 736
Про автора
Peter Melville Logan is Professor of English at Temple
University, USA and Director of the Center for the Humanities at
Temple. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature,
critical theory, the history of the novel, and the history of
science. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and
Primitives (2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of
Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997), as well as
articles on Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and other
novelists.
Olakunle George is Associate Professor of English and
Africana Studies at Brown University, USA, where he teaches African
literary and cultural studies, Afro-Diasporic cultural criticism,
and Anglo-American literary theory. He is the author of Relocating
Agency: Modernity and African Letters (2003) and articles in
Comparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Novel: A Forum on
Fiction, and Representations.
Susan Hegeman is Professor of English at the
University of Florida, USA, where she specializes in
twentieth-century American literature, popular culture, cultural
history, and critical theory. She is the author of Patterns for
America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and The
Cultural Return (2012).