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Discussions of more than 170 works survey the evolution of the modern American novel of the Left and review critical, historical, and theoretical works related to this cultural phenomenon.

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Provides students and scholars interested in pursuing research into modern British leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place that provides extensive coverage of British leftist and working class novels of the past century.

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Provides an introduction to the modern and contemporary novel in German-speaking countries and the work of novelists such as Gunter Grass, Heinrich Boll, Martin Walser and Christa Wolf.

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Alick West, one of the leading literary critics of the Left, begins by contesting Dr. Leavis' well known argument that the traditional culture of the English people was destroyed by the industrial revolution.

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John Andre was captured in September 1780, outside British lines, and was hanged as a spy. The publication date of The Spy (1821--the year of Andre's reinterment) further suggests that this affair is really the impetus for Cooper's examination of the nature of spying.

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Examines how Richard Dawkins' so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. This title offers a genealogy of the "New Atheist Novel": where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future.

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Examines how Richard Dawkins' so-called 'New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. This title offers a genealogy of the "New Atheist Novel": where it comes from, what needs it serves and, most importantly, where it may go in the future.

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For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective

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"Examines a history of reading practices in 19th-century Bengal at the intersection of Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic aesthetics, British colonial pedagogy, and the rise of Bengali novels"--

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This book provides an abridged translation of the writings of Ervin Sink, the Hungarian writer and intellectual, during his visit to the Soviet Union in 193537. It describes his initial sympathy for the Soviet project and his eventual disillusionment after witnessing what he considered to be Stalinisms betrayals of socialist ideals.

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By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this volume demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. It contains more than one hundred essays by critics from around the world.

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A translated selection from the epic five-volume "Italian Il Romanzo" (2001-2003), this title views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. It is suitable for all students and scholars of literature.

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Presenting a clear, well-argued view of Vonnegut's work within the context of American literature and history, this study discusses all of Vonnegut's novels against the background of his other writing, events of the 20th century and the vast array of Vonnegut scholarship.

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The author of such works as A Brighter Sun (1952), The Lonely Londoners (1956), and The Plains of Caroni (1970), West Indian novelist Samuel Selvon is attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention.

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The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel studies the importance, the uses, and the changes in the work of genre in the contemporary novel. By looking at both the current interest in popular genres in literary writing, as well as at the currently ongoing changes to tradit...

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Reveals how novels of political estrangement have drawn on cultural narratives to capture the zeitgeist of the 20th Century and the disillusionment of modernism. In this book, the author adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century.

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The adventures of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the late-20th century. This account of the global phenomenon uses the plots and characterizations in the novels and blockbuster films to place Bond in an historical, cultural and political context.

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Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of York.

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The author looks beyond formal criticism to explore how black writers (and by implication all writers) present their views about the world, its society, and our relation to them. Writers included range from Charles W. Chesnutt to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.