This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.
Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars
Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field
Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works
Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
Table of Contents
Volume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction
List of entries
Preface to The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors to Volume I
Introduction to Volume I
British and Irish Fiction A-Z
Volume II: Twentieth-Century American Fiction
List of entries
Notes on Contributors to Volume II
Introduction to Volume II
American Fiction A-Z
Volume III: Twentieth-Century World Fiction
List of entries
Notes on Contributors to Volume III
Introduction to Volume III
World Fiction A-Z
Index
