Overview
Discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises the genre's political, ethical, and aesthetic value
Encourages new critical discourses in literary studies
Addresses the need for fresh transdisciplinary approaches
Focuses on the multifaceted responses of the novel to key global challenges
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book discusses the complex ways in which the novel offers a vibrant arena for critically engaging with our contemporary world and scrutinises the genre's political, ethical, and aesthetic value. Far-reaching cultural, political, and technological changes during the past two decades have created new contexts for the novel, which have yet to be accounted for in literary studies. Addressing the need for fresh transdisciplinary approaches that explore these developments, the book focuses on the multifaceted responses of the novel to key global challenges, including migration and cosmopolitanism, posthumanism and ecosickness, human and animal rights, affect and biopolitics, human cognition and anxieties of inattention, and the transculturality of terror. By doing so, it testifies to the ongoing cultural relevance of the genre. Lastly, it examines a range of 21st-century Anglophone novels to encourage new critical discourses in literary studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sibylle Baumbach is a Professor of English Literatures at Stuttgart University (Germany).
Birgit Neumann is a Professor of English Literature and Anglophone Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
Editors: Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32598-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32597-8Published: 07 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32600-5Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32598-5Published: 20 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 344
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature