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The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess's fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors. This book explores Burgess's dazzlingly diverse range of novels through the one key theme which links them all – the artistic process itself. Borrowing from Nietzsche's aesthetic dichotomy of Apollo and Dionysus, the book uncovers the protracted evolution of Burgess's fiction and offers a unifying theory which links his early postcolonial fiction chronologically, via his modernist experiments like A Clockwork Orange and Nothing Like The Sun, to his late classics Mozart and the Wolfgang and A Dead Man in Deptford. This volume clarifies Burgess's seminal role as both late modernist and early postmodernist, and lucidly unveils the legacy of England's most mercurial novelist.

Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Fiction. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction Literature. --- 20th century.

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This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two or more of them? Do novels with alternating narratives diverge from longstanding conventions and represent a significant change in literature for young readers? If not, how do these novels manage to operate within the parameters of those conventions? This book considers answers to these questions by means of a series of close readings that explore the structural, educational and ideological implications of a variety of American, British, Canadian and Australian novels for children and for young adults. .

Literature. --- Children's literature. --- Fiction. --- America --- Children's Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literatures. --- Point of view (Literature) --- Fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Persona (Literature) --- Technique --- America-Literatures. --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Juvenile literature --- Philosophy --- America—Literatures.

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This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as a model of collaborative pedagogy. Analyzing authors, their professional circumstances, and their audiences, the study shows how the rhetoric of friendship became a means of paying deference to the increasing power of readerships, while it also served as a semi-covert means to persuade resistant readers and confront aesthetic and moral debates head on. The study contributes to an understanding of gender roles in the early history of the novel by disclosing the constant interplay between male and female models of amity. It demonstrates that this gendered dialogue shaped the way novelists imagined character interiority, reconciled with the commercial aspects of writing, and engaged mixed-sex audiences.

English fiction --- Friendship in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern-18th century. --- Fiction. --- British literature. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—18th century.

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This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism. It offers a new perspective on the works of Joseph Conrad and provides an accessible medium through which readers can engage with the complex theories and philosophical dilemmas that Conrad presents in his fiction. This is the only major study of food in Conrad’s works; it is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to food in that it engages with sociological, political, historical, personal and literary perspectives, thus providing a multi-dimensional approach to cultural, revolutionary, periodical and fictional representations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This in turn, allows an interrogation of modern anxieties, embedded in cultural norms and values that can be interpreted through the way that food is prepared and eaten. .

Literature, Modern --- Literature --- British literature. --- Fiction. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century.

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This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis – birth and death, maturation, marriage – moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family ‘politics’ become most apparent.

Literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern. --- Fiction. --- British literature. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- Literary History. --- British and Irish Literature. --- History and criticism. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Modern literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philosophy --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Novelists --- Arts, Modern --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Literature—History and criticism.