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The State Of The Novel : Britain And Beyond

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Dominic Head
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Book, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
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Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contemporary British novel written by an expert in the field. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · English literature · Theory, etc · 21st century · Globalization in literature · Criticism · Great Britain · History · Head, Dominic
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .H435 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR881 .H435 2008	AVAILABLE

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Colonialism And The Emergence Of Science Fiction

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John Rieder
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Book, Wesleyan University Press, 2008
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This is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction’s relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism’s impact on late Victorian Gothic and adventure fiction and on Anglo-American popular and literary culture in general. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Science fiction, American · History and criticism · American fiction · 19th century · 20th century · English fiction · Literature and science · English-speaking countries · Imperialism in literature · Colonies in literature · Rieder, John, 1952-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.S35 R45 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS374.S35 R45 2008	AVAILABLE

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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, And The Rhetorical Theory Of Narrative

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James Phelan
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2007
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Phelan contends that focusing on the three main kinds of judgment?interpretive, ethical, and aesthetic?and on the principles underlying a narrative?s movement from beginning to end reveals the experience of reading fiction to be potentially sharable. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Narration (Rhetoric) · American fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Theory, etc · English fiction · Reader-response criticism · American literature · Explication · English literature · Phelan, James, 1951-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.N285 P47 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS374.N285 P47 2007	AVAILABLE

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Scandalous Fictions : The Twentieth-century Novel In The Public Sphere

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edited by Jago Morrison and Susan Watkins
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Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Riven by world wars and cold wars, atrocities and genocides, the twentieth-century was also one of sexual, cultural and ideological revolutions, each inscribed across the fictions it produced. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · American fiction · Commonwealth fiction (English) · History and criticism · Literature and society · English-speaking countries · History · Morrison, Jago, 1969- · Watkins, Susan, 1967-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR478.S57 S23 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR478.S57 S23 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Cambridge Companion To The Modernist Novel

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edited by Morag Shiach
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2007
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The novel is modernism’s most vital and experimental genre. In this Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · American fiction · Modernism (Literature) · Great Britain · United States · Shiach, Morag
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR478.M6 C36 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR478.M6 C36 2007	AVAILABLE

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Aiming At Heaven, Getting The Earth : The English Catholic Novel Today

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Marian E. Crowe
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Book, Lexington Books, 2007
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Aiming At Heaven, Getting the Earth: The English Catholic Novel Today argues that there is still vitality in the English Catholic novel. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · Catholic authors · History and criticism · 20th century · Catholic fiction · Christianity in literature · Catholics in literature · Crowe, Marian E., 1941-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR120.C3 C76 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR120.C3 C76 2007	AVAILABLE

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Modern Utopian Fictions From H.G. Wells To Iris Murdoch

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Peter Edgerly Firchow
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Book, Catholic University of America Press, 2007
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While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary–possibly as a reaction not only against the “social scientification” of modern utopias but also in reaction against the modern attempt to institute “utopia” in reality, notably in the former Soviet Union but also in consumerist, late-twentieth-century America. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Utopias in literature · Dystopias in literature · Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR888.U7 F57 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR888.U7 F57 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Novel Now : Contemporary British Fiction

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Richard Bradford
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Book, Blackwell Pub, 2007
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Kennedy, Matt Thorne, Nicola Barker, and Toby Litt Incorporates original coverage of subgenres such as chick lit, lad lit, gay fiction, crime fiction, and the historical novel Discusses the ways in which notions of regional identity and tribalist views have surfaced in UK and Irish fiction, and how post-Imperial sensibility has become a feature of the ?British? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · 21st century · Bradford, Richard, 1957-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .B684 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR881 .B684 2007	AVAILABLE

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English Fiction Since 1984 : Narrating A Nation

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Brian Finney
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Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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This book focuses on the work of a group of British novelists who have broken in different ways from the realist British novel of the post Second World War period without losing their broad appeal among readers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · 21st century · History in literature · Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature · National characteristics in literature · Finney, Brian
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .F56 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR881 .F56 2006	AVAILABLE

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Character And Satire In Post-war Fiction

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Ian Gregson
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Book, Continuum, 2006
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · American fiction · Satire, English · Satire, American · Character in literature · Caricature in literature · World War, 1939-1945 · Influence · Gregson, Ian
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .G74 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR881 .G74 2006	AVAILABLE

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Four British Fantasists : Place And Culture In The Children’s Fantasies Of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, And Susan Cooper

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Charles Butler
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Book, Children’s Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, 2006
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Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writes who rose to prominence in the second Golden Age of children’s literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Fantasy fiction, English · History and criticism · Children’s stories, English · English fiction · 20th century · Place (Philosophy) in literature · Setting (Literature) · Culture in literature · Butler, Charles, 1963-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR888.F3 B88 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR888.F3 B88 2006	AVAILABLE

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Ethics And Nostalgia In The Contemporary Novel

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John J. Su
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Despite deep cultural differences, novelists from Africa, the Caribbean, Great Britain, and the United States share a sense that the economic, social, and political forces associated with late modernity have evoked widespread nostalgia within the communities in which they write. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Nostalgia in literature · Ethics in literature · Su, John J
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .S78 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR881 .S78 2005	AVAILABLE

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The Things That Matter : What Seven Classic Novels Have To Say About The Stages Of Life

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Edward Mendelson
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Book, 1st ed, Pantheon Books, 2006
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An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts?portray the essential experiences of life. Looking beyond theories to the individual intentions of the authors and taking into consideration their lives and times, Mendelson examines the sometimes contradictory ways in which the novels portray such major passages of life as love, marriage, and parenthood. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Life cycle, Human, in literature · English fiction · 19th century · History and criticism · 20th century · Mendelson, Edward
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR868.L54 M46 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR868.L54 M46 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Postcolonial Exotic : Marketing The Margins

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Graham Huggan
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Book, Routledge, 2001
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Using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial “products” are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · Minority authors · History and criticism · Fiction · Appreciation · English-speaking countries · History · 20th century · Publishing · Commonwealth fiction (English) · Postcolonialism · Multiculturalism in literature · Postcolonialism in literature · Ethnic groups in literature · Exoticism in literature · Man Booker Prize · Canon (Literature) · Huggan, Graham, 1958-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR120.M55 H84 2001 DUE 01-12-10

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR120.M55 H84 2001	DUE 01-12-10

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Consuming Fictions : The Booker Prize And Fiction In Britain Today

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Richard Todd
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Book, Bloomsbury, 1996
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English fiction · 20th century · History and criticism · Literary prizes · Great Britain · Publishers and publishing · Todd, Richard
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR881 .T63 1996 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR881 .T63 1996	AVAILABLE

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