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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 9: The World Novel in English to 1950
Contributor(s): Crane, Ralph (Editor), Stafford, Jane (Editor), Williams, Mark (Editor)
ISBN: 0199609934     ISBN-13: 9780199609932
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $175.75  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 823.009
LCCN: 2014946471
Series: Oxford History of the Novel in English
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 7" W x 9.6" (2.25 lbs) 502 pages
 
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a twelve-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the literary
novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.

Volume 9: The World Novel to 1950 traces the development of the world novel, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world except for in Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey essays and essays on major writers, as
well as essays on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The World Novel to 1950 covers periods from Renaissance literary imaginings of exotic parts of the world like Oceania, through fiction embodying the ideology and conventions of empire, to the emergence of
settler nationalist and Indigenous movements and, finally, the assimilations of modernism at the beginnings of the post-imperial world order. The book, then, contains essays on the development of the non-metropolitan novel throughout the British world from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth
centuries. This is the period of empire and resistance to empire, of settler confidence giving way to doubt, and of the rise of indigenous and post-colonial nationalisms that would shape the world after World War II.