Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Entries vii

List of Entries by Topic ix

Editors xi

Board of Advisors xii

Contributors xiv

Introduction xvii

Acknowledgments xx

The Novel A–Z 1

Index of Novelists 691

General Index 736

About the Author

General Editor Peter Melville Logan is Professor of English at TempleUniversity, USA and Director of the Center for the Humanities atTemple. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature,critical theory, the history of the novel, and the history ofscience. He is the author of Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals andPrimitives (2009) and Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History ofHysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1997), as well asarticles on Victorian popular culture, George Eliot, and MatthewArnold. Associate Editors Olakunle George is Associate Professor of English andAfricana Studies at Brown University, USA, where he teaches Africanliterary and cultural studies, Afro-Diasporic cultural criticism,and Anglo-American literary theory. He is the author of RelocatingAgency: Modernity and African Letters (2003) and articles inComparative Literature Studies, Diacritics, Novel: A Forum onFiction, and Representations. Susan Hegeman is Associate Professor of English at theUniversity of Florida, USA, where she specializes intwentieth-century American literature, popular culture, culturalhistory, and critical theory. She is the author of Patterns forAmerica: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (1999) and TheCultural Return (forthcoming 2011). Efrain Kristal is Chair of the Department of ComparativeLiterature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, wherehe is also Professor of Spanish and French. He is editor of TheCambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (2005) and JorgeLuis Borges's Poems of the Night (2010), and the author of numerousbooks and articles on literature, translation studies, andaesthetics.

Reviews

It is an invaluable work for students and researchers. Itwill enable undergraduates to gain an understanding of thetheoretical and philosophical issues that underpin their studies,and researchers will be able to examine aspects of their choseninterest in depth, within the context of a worldview. (Reference Reviews, 2011) "Edited by Logan (Temple Univ.), a renowned English professor,The Encyclopedia of the Novel is a quality reference tooldepicting the novel as a literary genre ... This is a solidresource for anyone interested in literature and the novel'shistory and influence. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-levelundergraduates and above; general readers. " (Choice, July2011) "Part of Blackwell Reference Online, the Wiley-BlackwellEncyclopedia of Literature is a database with content from severalnew stand-alone scholarly literature reference sets. Together, theyprovide almost 1,000 entries on the history, terminology, genres,and theory of the novel; major writers, works, movements, andgenres of twentieth-century British, American, and world fiction;and terms and concepts related to post-1900 literary and culturaltheory. The database would be a good investment for libraries thatwant to acquire the content." (Booklist, 2011) "These three stand-alone titles work well together; overlappingentries complement rather than duplicate each other. Four plannedbut as yet unpublished titles in this seven-title series are TheEncyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, TheEncyclopedia of Romantic Literature, The Encyclopedia of theGothic, and The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Itwould be nice to see a single cumulative or series index tying allseven together to create the most efficient access method for theserious researcher. Part of the larger series, these first threetitles can be purchased separately or all together ... Based on thepremise that literature mirrors life, which mirrors the surroundingsociety and culture, this unique work employs 320 signed articleswritten by 223 academic contributors at various Anglo-Americaninstitutions to connect literature and sociology. Organized indictionary format within time period and type of theory (social orliterary), articles range from two and three-quarters pages("Abrams, M.H.") to 11 pages ("Narrative Theory"). Each entryincludes a bibliography. Volumes 1 and 2 cover literary theoriesbetween 1900 and 1966 and from 1966 to the present day. Culturaltheories appear in Volume 3. See also references incorporatingentries in all three volumes, cross-references within the text, anda detailed index ensure easy research access. Overall, the volumeeditors provide good coverage ... General editor Ryan hasauthored several books, including Literary Theory: A PracticalIntroduction. BOTTOM LINE: An excellent resource for thoseattempting to tie literature to the society surrounding it.Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students inliterature, writing, sociology, and anthropology." (Laurie Selwyn, formerly with Grayson Cty. Law Lib., Sherman, TX -of the 3-volume Encyclopedia of the Novel)