Description based on v. 3. Each volume has also an individual title. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
v. 1. Prose fiction in English from the origins of print to 1750 / edited by Thomas Keymer -- v. 2. English and British fiction, 1750-1820 / edited by Peter Garside and Karen O'Brien -- v. 3. The nineteenth-century novel, 1820-1880 / edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor -- v. 4. The reinvention of the British and Irish novel, 1880-1940 / edited by Patrick Parrinder and Andrzej Gasiorek -- v. 5. The American novel from its beginnings to 1870 / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person -- v. 6. The American novel, 1870-1940 / edited by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott -- v. 7. British and Irish fiction since 1940 / edited by Peter Boxall and Bryan Cheyette -- v. 8. American fiction since 1940 -- v. 9. World fiction in English to 1950 / edited by Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford and Mark Williams -- v. 10.The novel in English in Asia and the Philippines since 1950 -- v. 11. The novel in Africa and the Atlantic world since 1950 / edited by Simon Gikandi -- v. 12. The novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950.
Summary:
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars--Dust jacket.
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