Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor in English at the Ohio State University. This is a companion with a difference which sets a controversial new agenda for literaryhistorical analysis and will remain a point of reference and discussion within English Studies for years to come.
Framed by the editors’ introduction and conclusion, the essays collectively offer a complex, interlocking and overlapping ‘group portrait’ of twentieth-century literatures in context. Twenty-one chapters, commissioned from specialists in various sub-fields of twentiethcentury literary studies, each target one of these seminal times and places, ranging widely around them to gather in broad swathes of culture and context.
A reference work for the new century, the present Companion cuts across these familiar categories, focusing instead on ‘hot spots’ – crossroads in space and time around which the products and movements of the literary imagination can be seen to arrange themselves: Freud’s Vienna and Conrad’s Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001. The usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures no longer seems adequate. In an era suspicious of grand narratives, when consensus lies beyond reach and alternative histories proliferate, literary history has become more exciting, challenging – and problematic – than ever. reshuffling of the literary-historical deck in this volume is refreshing and illuminating for student readers too.’ Steven Connor, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century. The book stands to make a genuinely outstanding contribution.’ Bruce Robbins, Department of English, Columbia University ‘This intriguing and informative book rides the updraught provided by the continuing popularity of guides and companions, but also performs some surprising and fascinating new mid-air manoeuvres with the form. It instructs both by its programmatic statements and by the success of its examples.
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English Edited by Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson ‘The moment for this book is absolutely perfect. The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English Below are the available bulk discount rates for each individual item when you purchase a certain amountĪuthor: Anat Keinan Author: Jill Avery Author: Fiona Wilson Author: Michael I.TO T W E N T I E T H - C E N T U RY L I T E R AT U R E S I N E N G L I S HĮdited by Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson
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