Download or read book A Guide to Twentieth-century Women Novelists written by Kathleen M. Wheeler and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide analyses, in 135 essays, the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists from all over the English-speaking world. Eleven further chapters focus upon the influence of early psychological writing on fiction, the rise of international English literature, fiction from the rich post-war period, post-structuralist theory, postmodernism and magic realism, and feminist theory.