{"product_id":"the-modern-novel-9781405100496","title":"The Modern Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eClaims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eServes as an excellent springboard for classr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eElaine Showalter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eBrian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Modern How?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 When and Why: The Rise of the Modern Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 “What is Reality?”: The New Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 New Forms: Reshaping the Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 New Difficulties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Regarding the Real World: Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Questioning the Modern: Mid-Century Revisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Postmodern Replenishments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Postcolonial Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407834587479,"sku":"9781405100496","price":33.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405100496.jpg?v=1730500683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-modern-novel-9781405100496","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}