The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth‐century English Novel

Inside every slim volume in this series there seems to be a larger book trying to emerge, and this Cambridge Companion is no exception. The editor, an English professor at Pennsylvania State University, has marshalled a hugely ambitious survey on the most familiar and popular literary form, and covered a vast corpus of works by over 100 novelists, from amongst some of the most studied in the entire literary canon to the oft‐neglected or forgotten. The result is a stimulating collection of essays which are well‐structured to inspire research by both students and the general reader, and each of which...