The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series
presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of
English-language prose fiction and written by a large,
international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels
as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes
chapters on the processes of production, distribution and
reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as
well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements and
tendencies. This volume offers the fullest and most nuanced account
available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction. It
begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by
more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have
made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction
titles and have changed completely the relationship between
authors, publishers, the novel and the reader. The collection is
made up of thirty-four chapters by leading scholars in the field
who detail the impact of global warfare on the novel from the
Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the
reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and
television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between
sexuality, gender and different periods of women's writing; a broad
range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and
discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national,
class and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of
the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the
literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the
children's novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter
fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final
chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first
century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction
both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the
novel to come.
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