Encyclopedia of Novel 2 vols

The Encyclopedia of the Novel focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. More than 600 entries include essays on writers, novels and topics, as well as lengthy surveys of the novel in various regions across the globe. Entries on individual writers assess the place of each writer within the development of the novel form, and explain the significance of the writer and his/her oeuvre to the development of the genre. Entries on individual novels discuss the novel both within the context of the writer's work and within the history of the form, analysing the innovations that particular novel introduced and the ways in which it influenced the subsequent course of the genre. An international team of more than 350 literary scholars contributed to this work.