Overview
- Brings together a diverse range of scholars from around the globe
- Offers a holistic and comprehensive approach to a breadth of issues impacting Europe since 1945
- Bridges literary analysis with cutting-edge discussions of Europe taking place in Politics, Economics, History, and the Social Sciences.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature (PMEL)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization), offering a ground-breaking study of how modern and contemporary writers have participated in the European debate. The sixteen essays view the chosen writers, not as representatives of national literatures, but as participants in transcontinental discussion that has occurred across borders, cultures, and languages. In doing so, the contributors raise questions about the forms of power operating across and radiating from Europe, challenging both the institutionalized divisions of the Cold War and the triumphalist narrative of continental unity currently being written in Brussels.
Reviews
“An eminently timely and fascinating collection of essays, tightly focused on Europe at a time of maximum anxiety about the region. Combining regional and larger geopolitical questions about Europe and European integration, the choice of texts foregrounds marginal and neglected ethnicities and regions, enabling a forceful testing of the European project. This will be a book that most researchers of the cultural side to European integration (an emerging and very important field), as well as scholars of modern languages, comparative literature, and the contemporary novel, will want on their shelves.” (Adam Piette, Professor of Modern Literature, University of Sheffield, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Andrew Hammond is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are Cold War fiction, twentieth-century British fiction, postcolonial writing and theory, and cross-cultural representation. Previous publications include British Fiction and the Cold War (2013), Global Cold War Literature (editor, 2012), and British Literature and the Balkans (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Novel and Europe
Editors: Andrew Hammond
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52627-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52626-7Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70738-6Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52627-4Published: 05 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6478
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 361
Topics: European Literature, Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Contemporary Literature