{"product_id":"the-encyclopedia-of-twentieth-century-fiction-3-volume-set-hardback-9781405192446","title":"The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set (Hardback) 9781405192446","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian W. Shaffer (General editor), B Shaffer (Author), Patrick O'Donnell (Volume editor), David W. Madden (Volume editor), Justus Nieland (Volume editor), John Clement Ball (Volume editor)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405192446, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 December 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1584 pages\u003cbr\u003e27.2 x 11.9 x 21.6 cm, 3.506 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\" Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. \" (Choice, 1July 2011)  \u003cp\u003e \"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)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"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)]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEntries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume I: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of entries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish and Irish Fiction A-Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume II: Twentieth-Century American Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of entries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Fiction A-Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume III: Twentieth-Century World Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of entries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld Fiction A-Z\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52437798682904,"sku":"9781405192446","price":322.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405192446.jpg?v=1784941508","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-encyclopedia-of-twentieth-century-fiction-3-volume-set-hardback-9781405192446","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}