Description

The book methodically charts the development of the English novel from its emergence as the dominant intellectual class in the middle of the twentieth century to its place as an unpredictable greatness in the middle of the twenty-first century under new media conditions. The English novel as a distinctively modern genre, the novel in the economy, genres; gender (performativity, masculinities, woman's rights, eccentric), and "The Burden of Representation" (class and ethnicity) are all specifically covered. The methodical approach is supplemented by broadened contextualised close readings of more than 20 important works, ranging from Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), which provide evaluations of archival and speculative points of view and enliven future research. As a result, students and researchers motivated by this material are forced to turn to research from the 1970s, most of it is based on out-of-date methodological and ideological assumptions. The handbook of aims to fill this gap by offering fresh interpretations of works that indisputably appear in writing classrooms and in academic discussions, from James' The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road.