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The Encyclopedia of the Novel Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition

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Author: Logan, Peter Melville (Editor)
ISBN: 9781405161848

by Peter Melville Logan (Editor); Text by (Art/Photo Books) Olakunle George; Text by (Art/Photo Books) Susan Hegeman

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An advanced reference resource featuring nearly 150 contributors and over 500,000 words, The Encyclopedia of the Novel provides authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre, and theory of the novel.

The entries in this encyclopedia are written by an international cast of scholars and overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field. Arranged in A-Z format across two fully indexed and meticulously cross-referenced volumes, the entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (such as narrative structure, plot, character, and narrative perspective); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, dialogue, and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems; book history; and the relationship of the novel to other arts and disciplines.

Details

Title The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Author Peter Melville Logan (Editor); Text by (Art/Photo Books) Olakunle George; Text by (Art/Photo Books) Susan Hegeman
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 1024
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2011
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9781405161848 / 1405161841
Weight 5.02 lbs (2.28 kg)
Dimensions 10.8 x 8.5 x 3.6 in (27.43 x 21.59 x 9.14 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Reference
Library of Congress subjects Fiction
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010029410
Dewey Decimal Code 809.300

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Citations

Choice, 07/01/2011, Page 0
Library Journal, 05/01/2011, Page 104
Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2011, Page 246

About the author

General Editor
Peter Melville Logan is Professor of English at Temple University, USA and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Temple. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, critical theory, the history of the novel, and the history of science. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997), as well as articles on Victorian popular culture, George Eliot, and Matthew Arnold.

Associate Editors
Olakunle George is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Brown University, USA, where he teaches African literary and cultural studies, Afro-Diasporic cultural criticism, and Anglo-American literary theory. He is the author of Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters (2003) and articles in Comparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Representations.
Susan Hegeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, where she specializes in twentieth-century American literature, popular culture, cultural history, and critical theory. She is the author of Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and The Cultural Return (forthcoming 2011).
Efrain Kristal is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where he is also Professor of Spanish and French. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (2005) and Jorge Luis Borges's Poems of the Night (2010), and the author of numerous books and articles on literature, translation studies, and aesthetics.