Peter Boxall (literary scholar)
British academic and writer
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Peter Boxall, FBA is a British academic and writer. He is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English literature at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of New College.[1]
Peter Boxall | |
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| Education | University of Sussex |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Employer | University of oxford |
| Known for | Editor of Textual Practice |
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He works on contemporary literature, literary theory and literary modernism. Boxall is notable as the editor of the well-established journal of literary theory, Textual Practice, for his editorship of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and The Oxford History of the Novel, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940, and for his work on contemporary fiction, most notably Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Value of the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2015).[2][3][4][5][6]
In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[7]
Published works
Articles
- 2015: Science, technology and the posthuman. The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction Since 1945.
- 2012: Late: Fictional Time in the Twenty-First Century. Contemporary Literature, pp. 681–712.
- 2011: The threshold of vision: the animal gaze in Beckett, Sebald, and Coetzee. Journal of Beckett Studies, 20 (2). pp. 120–148
- 2008: "There's no lack of void": waste and abundance in Beckett and DeLillo. SubStance, 37(2). pp. 56–70.
- 2007: Boxall, Peter, Hadfield, Andrew, Smith, Lindsay and Surprenant, Celene. Preface. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
Books
- 2015: Boxall, Peter The value of the novel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107637245
- 2013: Boxall, Peter Twenty-first century fiction: a critical introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781107006911
- 2009: Boxall, Peter Since Beckett: contemporary writing in the wake of modernism. Continuum Literary Studies . Continuum. ISBN 9780826491671
Editor
- 2010: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Revised and Updated Edition. ISBN 9780789320391
- 2006: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. ISBN 9781844034178