Peter Boxall (literary scholar)

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Peter Boxall
FBA
Education University of Sussex
OccupationEducator
Employer University of Sussex
Known forEditor of Textual Practice
Notable work

Peter Boxall, FBA is a British academic and writer. He is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Sussex. [1]

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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]

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References

  1. "Prof Peter Boxall". University of Sussex. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  2. "Editorial Board". Textual Practice. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  3. Boxall, Peter, ed. (2006). 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die . New York, NY: Universe Publishing (Rizzoli International). pp.  960. ISBN   978-0789313706. OCLC   64385200.
  4. Boxall, Peter; Cheyette, Bryan, eds. (2016). The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198749394.
  5. Boxall, Peter (2013). Twenty-First-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521187299.
  6. Boxall, Peter (2015). The Value of the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781107637245.
  7. "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. 18 July 2024. Archived from the original on 24 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.