they don’t constitute a particular or recognizable literary tradition. “My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.

In her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie, a woman trying to define ...

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 ...

1 Demonstrate critical understanding of some major twentieth-century authors and texts in the genres of prose fiction and poetry. 2 Locate these texts in the contexts of literary modernism or ...

This Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The volume also explores the ...

Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War is an innovative study ... it argues that to fully understand the relationship between modern warfare and literary art, we must learn to engage ...