This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... --

This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of Engli

This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... --

Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not fre