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Public debates on the benefits and dangers of mass literacy prompted nineteenth-century British authors to write about illiteracy. Since the early twentieth century writers outside Europe have paid increasing attention to the subject as a measure both of cultural dependence and independence. So far literary studies has taken little notice of this. The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English offers explanations for this lack of interest in illiteracy amongst scholars of literature, and attempts to remedy this neglect by posing the question of how writers use their literacy to write about a condition radically unlike their own. Answers to this question are given in the analysis of nineteen works featuring illiterates yet never before studied for doing so. The book explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding, of barbarians in Angela Carter, David Malouf, and J.M. Coetzee, of African natives in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe, of Maoris in Patricia Grace and Chippewas in Louise Erdrich, of fugitive or former slaves and their descendants in Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Gaines, of Untouchables in Mulk Raj Anand and Salman Rushdie, and of migrants in Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, and Amy Tan. In so doing it conveys a clear sense of the complexity and variability of the phenomenon of non-literacy as well as its fictional resourcefulness.

English fiction --- Literacy. --- English fiction. --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999

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Explores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne George Eliot and William Dean Howells and examines how each used the figure of philanthropy both to redefine the sentiments that informed social identity and to refashion their own aesthetic practices.

English fiction --- American fiction --- Charity in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Of all eras of London’s history, the Victorian and Edwardian city continues to stimulate the literary, visual, and popular imaginations like no other. This collection explores the unique relationship between the literary, and more broadly, artistic imagination and experience of the Victorian and Edwardian city. It includes some major figures such as Wordsworth, Dickens, and James, but also other writers and artists who are all but forgotten. Bringing together some of the leading scholars working on representations of Victorian and Edwardian London, this collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students working on literary London and more broadly the urban in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.

English fiction --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1999 --- London (England) --- England --- In literature.

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Catholic fiction --- Catholics in literature --- Christianity in literature --- English fiction --- English fiction --- History and criticism --- Catholic authors --- History and criticism --- History and criticism

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This book identifies and interprets the longstanding transatlantic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.

English fiction --- American fiction --- Dandies in literature. --- Irish authors --- History and criticism.