I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century's worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn't — and indeed can't be — comprehensive.

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn’t — and indeed can’t be — comprehensive.

Frank thinks so: in his view, the twentieth-century novel is a distinct literary genre, and his book is an ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious effort to map it.

20th Century British Studies covers canonical texts as well as popular culture, postcolonial studies and cultural studies.

The first landmark 20th-century novel, Mr Frank argues, was “Notes from the Underground”, published in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Literary Masterpieces: The 25 Best Books That Defined the 20th CenturyStory by Christian Wiedeck, M.Sc. • 1mo 1 / 25 ©wikimedia ...

20th and 21st Century American literary studies explores the intersections of technological and culture innovation with aesthetic practices.

Novelist Robert Harris said 20th-century politicians in love and wanting to conduct affairs had it easier than today, in a talk at the Henley Literary Festival.

Imagine the novel itself as a character in a story, as Edwin Frank does in his exciting literary study “Stranger Than Fiction.” At the start of the 20th century, change is the order of the day.