Introduction -- Systematic questions. Christoph Bode: The English novel as a distinctly modern genre -- Alissa G. Karl: The novel in the economy, 1900 to the present -- Christoph Reinfandt: Genres: the novel between artistic ambition and popularity -- Ingrid Hotz-Davies: Gender: performing politics in prose? performativity, masculinity, feminism, queer -- Dirk Wiemann: The burden of representation: Reflections on class, ethnicity and the twentieth-century British novel -- Close readings. Russell West-Pavlov: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902) -- Dirk Vanderbeke: James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) -- Ralf Schneider: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) -- Timo Müller: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) -- Anya Heise-von der Lippe: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) -- Ingo Berensmeyer: Henry Green, Party Going (1939) -- Dirk Van Hulle: Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951,1958) -- Lars Eckstein: Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) -- Alice Ridout: Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) -- Brooke Lenz: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) -- Jens Martin: Gurr B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) -- Astrid Erll: J. G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970-1978) -- Christoph Reinfandt: William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979) -- Miriam Wallraven: Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) -- Madelena Gonzalez: Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) -- Tatjana Pavlov-West: Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989) -- Lena Steveker: A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) -- Gerold Sedlmayr: Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995-2000) -- Michael Meyer: Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) -- Dirk Wiemann: David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) -- Raphael Zähringer: China Miéville, Embassytown (2011) -- Andrew James Johnston: Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009) -- Christoph Reinfandt: Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015)
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