The Encyclopedia of Twentieth–Century Fiction: 3 Volume Set

Featuring over 500 entries written by an international team of scholars, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth–Century Fiction is an authoritative reference resource of up to date scholarship. Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish fiction, American fiction, and World fiction, the entries cover major writers and their works; the genres and sub–genres of fiction (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avante garde novel); and the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field.

Volume I: Twentieth–Century British and Irish Fiction List of entries Preface to The Encyclopedia of Twentieth–Century Fiction Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors to Volume I Introduction to Volume I British and Irish Fiction A–Z Volume II: Twentieth–Century American Fiction List of entries Notes on Contributors to Volume II Introduction to Volume II American Fiction A–Z Volume III: Twentieth–Century World Fiction List of entries Notes on Contributors to Volume III Introduction to Volume III World Fiction A–Z Index

Brian W. Shaffer is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at Rhodes College, USA. His previous publications include Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro (1998), and Reading the Novel in English 1950–2000 (Wiley–Blackwell 2006). He is the co–editor of Approaches to Teaching Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and “The Secret Sharer ” (2002), and Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro (2008), and the editor of A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000 (Wiley–Blackwell 2005). Patrick O’Donnell is Professor of English and American Literature at Michigan State University, USA. His previous works include Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative (1992), Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (2000), and The American Novel Now (Wiley–Blackwell 2010) . David W. Madden is Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, USA. He is the author of Understanding Paul West (1993) and the editor of Critical Essays on Thomas Berger (1995). Justus Nieland 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 Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life (2008). John Clement Ball is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, specializing in postcolonial and Canadian fiction. He is the author of Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie (2003) and Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (2004).

" Summing Up: Recommended. Lower–and upper–level undergraduates; general readers. " (Choice, 1July 2011) "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) "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)]