This resource examines the great American novel in all of its diversity. Spanning the earliest novels that imitated the literary fashions of England to the emergence of styles and subjects that were truly American, this reference traces the history of the novel in the USA. With more than 1200 A-Z entries, this work should help readers deepen their understanding of the American novel and its place in literary history.
This resource examines the great American novel in all of its diversity. Spanning the earliest novels that imitated the literary fashions of England t...
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers.
British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining. This book offers an informal, jargon-free introduction to the fiction of sixteen contemporary writers either brought up or now living in England, from Muriel Spark to Jeanette Winterson. British Women Writing Fiction presents a balanced view comprising women writing since the 1950s...
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen othe...
