Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction (26 volume set) contains titles, originally published between 1977 and 1997. It includes titles on the roles of women in literature, fantasy as a genre, a source guide to science fiction and many titles by renowned academics looking at specific novelists, the progression of their work and how it has been influential within modern fiction. Covering writers such as Iris Murdoch, John le Carré, Doris Lessing, Kurt Vonnegut and others, this collection will be of particular interest to students of literature and literary criticism.
1. Adolescent Female Portraits in the American Novel 1961-1981 Jane S. Bakerman & Mary Jean DeMarr (1983)
2. Lord Jim John Batchelor (1988)
3. Ancient Cultures of Conceit: British University Fiction in the Post War Years Ian Carter (1990)
4. Stories of Resilience in Childhood: the Narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, John Edgar Wideman and Tobais Wolff Daniel D. Challener (1997)
5. Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy Amaryll Beatrice Chanady (1985)
6. Richard Brautigan Marc Cheìnetier (1983)
7. Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martiìn Gaite Linda E. Chown (1990)
8. Becoming a Woman through Romance Linda K. Christian-Smith (1990)
9. Patrick White John Colmer (1984)
10. John Fowles Peter Conradi (1982)
11. Donald Barthelme Maurice Couturier & Reìgis Durand (1982)
12. Margaret Drabble Joanne V. Creighton (1985)
13. The Unresolvable Plot: Reading Contemporary Fiction Elizabeth Dipple (1988)
14. Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit Elizabeth Dipple (1982)
15. The Myth of Superwoman: Woman's Bestsellers in France and the United States Resa L. Dudovitz (1990)
16. Alain Robbe-Grillet John Fletcher (1983)
17. Novelists in Interview John Haffenden (Ed.) (1985)
18. John Le Carreì Eric Homberger (1986)
19. Kurt Vonnegut Jerome Klinkowitz (1982)
20. E. L. Doctorow Paul Levine (1985)
21. Doris Lessing Lorna Sage (1983)
22. In Defence of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature Since 1945 Ann Swinfen (1984)
23. Thomas Pynchon Tony Tanner (1985)
24. Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing Jenny Taylor (Ed.) (1982)
25. Iris Murdoch Richard Todd (1984)
26. A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies: An Annotated Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources for Fantasy and Science Fiction Marshall B. Tymn, Roger C. Schlobin & L. W. Currey (Eds) (1977)
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Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field.
