Books in the Oxford History of the Novel in English series

Volume 3 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces how many narrative genres, conventions, and preoccupations associated with Victorian fiction emerged and developed as the novel became established at the centre of British national culture. It includes sections on book history, major authors, and contemporary contexts.

Volume 2 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English provides full and unprecedented coverage of a conventionally neglected period in the history of the novel, offering a broad historical context to the period which saw the emergence of the definiton of the novel as we now know it.

This volume in The Oxford History of the Novel in English reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel.

Volume Seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction.

This volume highlights the development of the American novel within the context of global networks of influence and will cover topics like Reconstruction and the novel, the immigrant bildungsroman, early cinema and the novel, religious narratives, comics and the novel, and hardboiled detective fiction, among many others.

Volume 9 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the 'world novel' in English.

This multi-authored volume offers a comprehensive account of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The essays within explore the repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context, through a focus on the novel and short story.

This edited volume explores prose from the origins of printing in late fifteenth-century England to the rise of the novel as a recognized, reputable genre in the mid eighteenth century.

This multi-authored volume presents an original, wide-ranging assessment of the novel in English of South Asia and South East Asia after 1945. The volume includes sections on key writers, national traditions, and major themes and genres.

The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 examines the institutional and social peculiarities that make fiction produced in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950 important to the history of the novel in English.