Peter Boxall (literary scholar)
Professor Peter Boxall | |
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| Education | University of Sussex |
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Employer | University of Sussex |
| 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 |
Peter Boxall is a British academic and writer. He is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Sussex.[1] 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).[2][3][4][5][6]
Published works
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
References
- ^ "Prof Peter Boxall". University of Sussex. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ "Editorial Board". Textual Practice. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ Boxall, Peter, ed. (2006). 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. New York, NY: Universe Publishing (Rizzoli International). pp. 960. ISBN 978-0789313706. OCLC 64385200.
- ^ Boxall, Peter; Cheyette, Bryan, eds. (2016). The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198749394.
- ^ Boxall, Peter (2013). Twenty-First-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521187299.
- ^ Boxall, Peter (2015). The Value of the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107637245.