The Modern British Novel of the Left: A Research Guide

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British leftist novels are best understood as part of a cultural phenomenon that reacts against the mainstream tradition of British literature but also establishes and draws upon traditions of its own. These novels have been produced in a number of modes and subgenres, including realism, modernism, historical novels, detective novels and science fiction. This reference work 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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The author's summaries and analyses are accurate, preceptive, and objective. An essential acquisition for libraries at universities and at four-year colleges.-Choice
"The author's summaries and analyses are accurate, preceptive, and objective. An essential acquisition for libraries at universities and at four-year colleges."-Choice

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M. KEITH BOOKER is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous articles and books on modern literature and literary theory, including Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide (Greenwood, 1994), The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (Greenwood, 1994), Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction: Carnival, Dialogism, and History (Greenwood, 1995), Joyce, Bakhtin, and the Literary Tradition (1996), A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism (1996), and Colonial Power, Colonial Texts: India in the Modern British Novel (1997).