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The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English
novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the
early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of
eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters
address The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre', The Novel
in the Economy', Genres', Gender' (performativity, masculinities,
feminism, queer), and The Burden of Representation' (class and
ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than
twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to
Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic
approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of
reception and theoretical perspectives.
This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies
has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater
awareness of particularity and contingency - including its own.
What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of
Theory has ended? Grouping its chapters into rubrics of metatheory,
cultural theory, critical theory and textual theory, the collection
demonstrates that the practice of "doing theory" has neither lost
its vitality nor can it be in any way dispensable. Current
directions covered include the renewed interest in phenomenology,
the increased acknowledgement of the importance of media history
for all cultural practices and formations, complexity studies, new
narratology, literary ethics, cultural ecology, and an intensified
interest in textual as well as cultural matter.
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