Overview

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 a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, has called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. This multi-authored volume explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction , children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a TransPacific postcolonial history of the novel.

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Author:   Coral Ann Howells (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London) ,  Paul Sharrad (University of Wollongong, Australia) ,  Gerry Turcotte (The University of Notre Dame, Australia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.310kg
ISBN:  

9780199679775

ISBN 10:   0199679770
Pages:   654
Publication Date:   06 April 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface Introduction Editorial Note Part I: Book History 1: Katherine Bode: Australia 2: George L. Parker: Canada 3: Elizabeth Caffin: Aotearoa/New Zealand 4: Linda Crowl: South Pacific Part II: Identities in Transition 5: Brigid Rooney: Australia 6: Cynthia Sugars: Canada 7: Kirstine Moffat: Aotearoa/New Zealand 8: Paul Sharrad: South Pacific 9: Janet Wilson: Transnational Movements: Australia, Canada, New Zealand Part III: Fictional Modes 10: Donna Coates: Realist Fiction since 1950 (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific) 11: Lydia Wevers: Historical Fiction (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific) 12: Anouk Lang: Modernist Fiction/Alternative modernisms (Australia, Canada, New Zealand) 13: Gerry Turcotte: Postcolonial Gothic (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific) 14: Victoria Kuttainen and Greg Manning: Postmodernist and Literary Experiments (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific) 15: Clare Bradford: Children's and Young Adult Novels (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Pacific) Part IV: Australia 16: Margaret Harris: Major Authors: Christina Stead, Patrick White, David Malouf 17: Elizabeth Webby: The Short Story in Australia 18: Peter Minter and Belinda Wheeler: Aboriginal novels 19: Robyn Morris: Multicultural and Transnational Novels 20: Roslyn Weaver: Popular Fiction Part V: Canada 21: Coral Ann Howells: Major Authors: Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje 22: W. H. New: The Short Story in Canada 23: Tara Hyland-Russell: First Nations Novels 24: Isabel Carrera-Suarez: Multicultural and Transnational Novels 25: Marilyn Rose and Jeannette Sloniowski: Popular Fiction Part VI: New Zealand 26: Lawrence Jones: Major Authors: Janet Frame, Patricia Grace & Maurice Gee 27: Dougal McNeill: The Short Story in Aotearoa/ New Zealand 28: Christine Prentice: Maori Novels in English 29: James Meffan: Multicultural and Transnational Novels 30: Jenny Lawn: Popular Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime Fiction) Part VII: South Pacific 31: Michelle Keown: Major Authors: Albert Wendt, Epeli Hau'ofa and Sia Figiel 32: Steven Winduo: Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: the 'first wave' 33: Mohit Prasad: Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: the 'niu wave' Part VIII: Critical Reception 34: Linda Crowl, Susan Fisher, Elizabeth Webby, and Lydia Wevers: Newspapers and Journals (across all four areas) 35: Eva-Marie Kroeller: Literary Histories (across all four areas) Bibliography Index of Novelists Since 1950 General Index

Reviews

An admirable conclusion to this series. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --M. E. Burstein, CHOICE

This volume is a marvellous resource ... As it records the artists' and critics' efforts to showcase the local and transnational richness of novelistic production, this book will undoubtedly become a new bible for generations of literary researchers to come. * Jessica Maufort, Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies *

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Coral Ann Howells is Professor Emerita of English and Canadian Literature at the University of Reading, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London Paul Sharrad is Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong Gerry Turcotte is Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Provost of the Sydney Campus at the University of Notre Dame, Australia

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