Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The art of English fiction in the twentieth century
- 2 The British Empire and the English modernist novel
- 3 Realism and rebellion in Edwardian and Georgian fiction
- 4 The Great War in English fiction
- 5 Postwar modernism in the 1920s and 1930s: The mammoth in the basement
- 6 Regionalism in English fiction between the wars
- 7 Ireland and English fiction
- 8 Feminist fiction
- 9 Working-class fiction across the century
- 10 World War II, the welfare state, and postwar “humanism”
- 11 The Windrush generation
- 12 History in fiction
- 13 Postmodernisms of English fiction
- 14 Detectives and spies
- 15 The post-consensus novel: Minority culture, multiculturalism, and transnational comparison
- 16 An absurd century: Varieties of satire
- 17 The other side of history: Fantasy, romance, horror, and science fiction
- Further reading
- Index
Further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The art of English fiction in the twentieth century
- 2 The British Empire and the English modernist novel
- 3 Realism and rebellion in Edwardian and Georgian fiction
- 4 The Great War in English fiction
- 5 Postwar modernism in the 1920s and 1930s: The mammoth in the basement
- 6 Regionalism in English fiction between the wars
- 7 Ireland and English fiction
- 8 Feminist fiction
- 9 Working-class fiction across the century
- 10 World War II, the welfare state, and postwar “humanism”
- 11 The Windrush generation
- 12 History in fiction
- 13 Postmodernisms of English fiction
- 14 Detectives and spies
- 15 The post-consensus novel: Minority culture, multiculturalism, and transnational comparison
- 16 An absurd century: Varieties of satire
- 17 The other side of history: Fantasy, romance, horror, and science fiction
- Further reading
- Index
Summary
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel , pp. 267 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009