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"What makes the 20th century novel modern? What relations to modernity make fiction experimental and new? Is the postmodern novel a fiction of exhaustion or the replenishment of modernism's purpose? In this detailed and readable book, Jesse Matz offers useful answers to these questions and a guide to novels from Henry james to Zadie Smith." Elaine Showalter
"Jesse Matz’s The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction is an ambitious and impressive study of twentieth-century, English-language novels from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond ... This appealingly written, jargon-free overview of the modern novel will certainly change the way I think about – and teach – the field." Brian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments. Introduction: Modern How?.
1 When and Why: The Rise of the Modern Novel.
2 “What is Reality?”: The New Questions.
3 New Forms: Reshaping the Novel.
4 New Difficulties.
5 Regarding the Real World: Politics.
6 Questioning the Modern: Mid-Century Revisions.
7 Postmodern Replenishments.
8 Postcolonial Modernity.
Conclusions.
Notes.
Index
