{"product_id":"the-modern-novel-isbn-9781405100496","title":"The Modern Novel","description":"This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eClaims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eServes as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Modern How?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 When and Why: The Rise of the Modern Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 “What is Reality?”: The New Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 New Forms: Reshaping the Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 New Difficulties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Regarding the Real World: Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Questioning the Modern: Mid-Century Revisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Postmodern Replenishments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Postcolonial Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"What makes the 20th century novel modern? What relations to modernity make fiction experimental and new? Is the postmodern novel a fiction of exhaustion or the replenishment of modernism's purpose? In this detailed and readable book, Jesse Matz offers useful answers to these questions and a guide to novels from Henry james to Zadie Smith.\" \u003ci\u003eElaine Showalter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Jesse Matz’s The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction is an ambitious and impressive study of twentieth-century, English-language novels from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond ... This appealingly written, jargon-free overview of the modern novel will certainly change the way I think about – and teach – the field.\" \u003ci\u003eBrian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJesse Matz \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor at Kenyon College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and winner of Harvard University's Roslyn Abramson prize for excellence in teaching. For at least 100 years now, novelists have experimented with ways to make fiction “modern”, to make it better able to reflect and resist the perils and pleasures of modernity. This book looks at how they have done so, tracing the evolution of the modern novel through the twentieth century, and providing a framework through which readers of all kinds can appreciate the significance of the genre.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990289957093,"sku":"NP9781405100496","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405100496.jpg?v=1761787221","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-modern-novel-isbn-9781405100496","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}