A History of the Modernist Novel

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A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. Drawing on American, English, Irish, Russian, French and German traditions, leading scholars challenge existing attitudes about realism and modernism and draw new attention to everyday life and everyday objects. In addition to its exploration of new forms such as the modernist genre novel and experimental historical novel, this book considers the novel in postcolonial, transnational and cosmopolitan contexts. A History of the Modernist Novel also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.

Gregory Castle is Professor of British and Irish Literature at Arizona State University. He is the author of Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman, The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory, and The Literary Theory Handbook. He has also published in such journals as Genre, the Theatre Journal, James Joyce Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies. He is currently working on essays on Bram Stoker's Dracula, Oscar Wilde's American Tour of 1881, W. B. Yeats' poetry, Irish Revivalism, Irish modernism, and Assia Djebar's Algerian Quartet.