Peter Melville Logan - The Encyclopedia of the Novel

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The encyclopedia of the novel/edited by Peter Melville Logan;

Olakunle George, Susan Hegeman, and Efran Kristal, associate editors.

v.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-6184-8 (hardcover : alk. paper),

ISBN 978-1-1187-2389-0 (pbk : alk. paper),

1. FictionEncyclopedias. I. Logan, Peter Melville, 1951 II. George, Olakunle.

III. Hegeman, Susan, 1964 IV. Kristal, Efran, 1959

PN41.E485 2011

809.30003dc22

2010029410

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Peter Melville Logan is Professor of English at Temple University, USA and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Temple. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature, critical theory, the history of the novel, and the history of science. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997), as well as articles on Victorian popular culture, George Eliot, and Matthew Arnold.

Olakunle George is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Brown University, USA, where he teaches African literary and cultural studies, Afro-Diasporic cultural criticism, and Anglo-American literary theory. He is the author of Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters (2003) and articles in Comparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Representations.

Susan Hegeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA, where she specializes in twentieth-century American literature, popular culture, cultural history, and critical theory. She is the author of Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and The Cultural Return (2012).

Efran Kristal is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where he is also Professor of Spanish and French. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (2005) and Jorge Luis Borges's Poems of the Night (2010), and the author of numerous books and articles on literature, translation studies, and aesthetics.

Emily Apter, Professor of Comparative Literature and French, New York University.

Srinivas Aravamudan, Professor of English, Duke University.

Nancy Armstrong, Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English, Duke University.

Daniel Balderston, Mellon Professor of Modern Languages, University of Pittsburgh.

Rita Barnard, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania.

Ali Behdad, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael Bell, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.

Timothy Bewes, Associate Professor of English, Brown University.

Peter Tracey Connor, Associate Professor of French and Romance Philology, Barnard College.