The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre , The Novel in the Economy , Genres , Gender (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and The Burden of Representation (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.

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Christoph Reinfandt, University of Tübingen, Germany.