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Known for Editor of Textual Practice Notable work 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Oxford History of the Novel, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940
Twenty-First-Century Fiction
The Value of the Novel Books 1001 Books You Must Rea, Strategy and Human R, Twenty‑First‑Century Fiction: A Critical Int, The Value of the Novel, Don DeLillo Similar Richard B Freeman, Peter Nicholls, Sanjeev Bhaskar | ||
Peter Boxall is a British academic and writer. He is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Sussex. He works on contemporary literature, literary theory and literary modernism. Boxall is notable as the editor of the well-established journal of literary theory, Textual Practice, for his editorship of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and The Oxford History of the Novel, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940, and for his work on contemporary fiction, most notably Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Value of the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Contents
Articles
2015: Science, technology and the posthuman. The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction Since 1945.
2012: Late: Fictional Time in the Twenty-First Century. Contemporary Literature, pp. 681–712.
2011: The threshold of vision: the animal gaze in Becket, Sebald, and Coetzee. Journal of Beckett Studies, 20 (2). pp. 120–148
2008: "There's no lack of void": waste and abundance in Beckett and DeLillo. SubStance, 37(2). pp. 56–70.
2007: Boxall, Peter, Hadfield, Andrew, Smith, Lindsay and Surprenant, Celene. Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
Books
2015: Boxall, Peter The value of the novel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107637245
2013: Boxall, Peter Twenty-first century fiction: a critical introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107006911
2009: Boxall, Peter Since Beckett: contemporary writing in the wake of modernism. Continuum Literary Studies . Continuum. ISBN 9780826491671
Editor
2010: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Revised and Updated Edition. ISBN 9780789320391
2006: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.ISBN 9781844034178