Logan / George / Hegeman The Encyclopedia of the Novel

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-77907-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1024 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words.
Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines.
The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel.
This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Logan, Peter Melville

George, Olakunle

Hegeman, Susan

Kristal, Efraín

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Alphabetical List of Entries vii
List of Entries by Topic ix
Editors xi
Board of Advisors xii
Contributors xiv
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgments xx
The Novel A-Z 1
Index of Novelists 691
General Index 736

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Melville Logan is Professor of English at TempleUniversity, USA and Director of the Center for the Humanities atTemple. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature,critical theory, the history of the novel, and the history ofscience. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals andPrimitives (2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History ofHysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997), as well asarticles on Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and othernovelists.
Olakunle George is Associate Professor of English andAfricana Studies at Brown University, USA, where he teaches Africanliterary and cultural studies, Afro-Diasporic cultural criticism,and Anglo-American literary theory. He is the author of RelocatingAgency: Modernity and African Letters (2003) and articles inComparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Novel: A Forum onFiction, and Representations.
Susan Hegeman is Professor of English at theUniversity of Florida, USA, where she specializes intwentieth-century American literature, popular culture, culturalhistory, and critical theory. She is the author of Patterns forAmerica: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and TheCultural Return (2012).