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1. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

   Edited by Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale

   Series: Routledge Literature Companions

   What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Female Reader in the English Novel

   From Burney to Austen

   By Joe Bray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of her reading. This study shows that...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
3. The Epistolary Novel

   Representations of Consciousness

   By Joe Bray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the...

   Published May 14th 2003 by Routledge