Peter Boxall (academic)

Peter Boxall is a British academic and writer. He is Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Sussex. 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).
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 Becket, 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. 
2013: Boxall, Peter "Twenty-first century fiction: a critical introduction." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 
2009: Boxall, Peter "Since Beckett: contemporary writing in the wake of modernism." Continuum Literary Studies . Continuum. 
Editor.
2010: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Revised and Updated Edition." 
2006: "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die".