Robert L. Caserio is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of the English Novel (Cambridge, 2012), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel (Cambridge, 2009). His many publications include Plot, Story, and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period (1979) and the Perkins Prize-winning The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory (1998).

'… a plentiful, wide-ranging, and important exploration of modernist fiction from a distinguished critic.' The D.H. Lawrence Review

• 1. British narrative fiction in terms of 'period' and 'treatments'; 2. The artist as critic: ideas of fiction, 1890–1938; 3. Seeing modernism through; 4. British fiction amid non-fictional discourses in the era of modernism; 5. Entertaining fictions; 6. Collective welfare and warfare: British fiction 1936–1950.

Robert L. Caserio is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of the English Novel (Cambridge, 2012), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel (Cambridge, 2009). His many publications include Plot, Story, and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period (1979) and the Perkins Prize-winning The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory (1998).

'… a plentiful, wide-ranging, and important exploration of modernist fiction from a distinguished critic.' The D.H. Lawrence Review

• 1. British narrative fiction in terms of 'period' and 'treatments'; 2. The artist as critic: ideas of fiction, 1890–1938; 3. Seeing modernism through; 4. British fiction amid non-fictional discourses in the era of modernism; 5. Entertaining fictions; 6. Collective welfare and warfare: British fiction 1936–1950.

Robert L. Caserio is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of the English Novel (Cambridge, 2012), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel (Cambridge, 2009). His many publications include Plot, Story, and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period (1979) and the Perkins Prize-winning The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory (1998).

'… a plentiful, wide-ranging, and important exploration of modernist fiction from a distinguished critic.' The D.H. Lawrence Review

• 1. British narrative fiction in terms of 'period' and 'treatments'; 2. The artist as critic: ideas of fiction, 1890–1938; 3. Seeing modernism through; 4. British fiction amid non-fictional discourses in the era of modernism; 5. Entertaining fictions; 6. Collective welfare and warfare: British fiction 1936–1950.