Arata Stephen - A companion to the English novel

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STEPHEN ARATA, MADIGAN HALEY, J. PAUL HUNTER, JENNIFER WICKE

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to the English novel / edited by Stephen Arata, Madigan Haley, J. Paul Hunter, and Jennifer Wicke
pagescm. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 155)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9445-7 (hardback)
1.English fictionHistory and criticism.2.Literary formHistory.3.FictionTechniqueHistory.4.Narration (Rhetoric)History.5.Authors and readersGreat BritainHistory.I.Arata, Stephen, author editor.II.Haley, Madigan, author editor.III.Hunter, J. Paul, 1934 editor.IV.Wicke, Jennifer, author editor.
PR823.C66 2015
823.009dc23

2015001069

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James Eli Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (Cornell, 1995) and A History of Victorian Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), as well as the co-editor, with Andrew Miller, of Sexualities in Victorian Britain (Indiana, 1996).
Jonathan Arac is Mellon Professor of English and founding Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh. A longtime member of the boundary 2 Editorial Collective, he also chaired from 2002 until 2012 the Advisory Committee of the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.His most recent book is Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel (Fordham, 2010).
Stephen Arata is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is a General Editor of The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh) and the author of Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Sicle (Cambridge, 1996, 2008) and the forthcoming A History of the English Novel (Wiley-Blackwell). He has edited William Morriss News from Nowhere