Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000

ISBN: 978-1-4051-0113-4

Hardcover

276 pages

September 2005, Wiley-Blackwell

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An engaging introduction to the English-language novel writing in the second half of the twentieth century.
Focuses on British and Irish novelists, and on Anglophone novelists from other countries (exclusive of the US).
Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts.
Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction.
Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Written in clear, jargon-free prose.