{"product_id":"the-encyclopedia-of-twentieth-century-fiction-3-volume-set-isbn-9781405192446","title":"The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEntries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cb\u003eVolume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of entries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish and Irish Fiction A-Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume II: Twentieth-Century American Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of entries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Fiction A-Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume III: Twentieth-Century World Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of entries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld Fiction A-Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \" Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. \" (Choice, 1July 2011)  \u003cp\u003e \"Authoritative, thoughtfully prepared, convenient - this three-volume reference will serve students, teachers, professors, general readers, anyone seeking concise yet detailed treatment of authors, and anyone seeking context or a starting place for literary research.\" (Booknews, 1 April 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"Part of Blackwell Reference Online, the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is a database with content from several new stand-alone scholarly literature reference sets. Together, they provide almost 1,000 entries on the history, terminology, genres, and theory of the novel; major writers, works, movements, and genres of twentieth-century British, American, and world fiction; and terms and concepts related to post-1900 literary and cultural theory. The database would be a good investment for libraries that want to acquire the content.\" (Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist, April 2011)]\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian W. Shaffer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at Rhodes College, USA. His previous publications include \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Kazuo Ishiguro\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and \u003ci\u003eReading the Novel in English 1950–2000\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell 2006). He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eApproaches to Teaching Conrad's \"Heart of Darkness\" and \"The Secret Sharer\"\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Kazuo Ishiguro\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick O'Donnell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and American Literature at Michigan State University, USA. His previous works include \u003ci\u003eEcho Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eLatent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and \u003ci\u003eThe American Novel Now\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid W. Madden\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Paul West\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eCritical Essays on Thomas Berger\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustus Nieland\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. He has written many papers in the fields of modernism, the avant-garde, and film studies, and is author of \u003ci\u003eFeeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clement Ball\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, specializing in postcolonial and Canadian fiction. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSatire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eImagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeaturing over 500 entries written by an international team of scholars, \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is an authoritative reference resource of up to date scholarship. 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