Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel

James Reay Williams holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London, UK, and has lectured at Queen Mary and the University of Exeter.

• 1. Introduction: Multilingualism, Modernism and the Novel.- 2. Post/Colonial Linguistics: Language Effects and Empire in Heart of Darkness and Nostromo.- 3. Lost for Words in London and Paris: Language Performance in Jean Rhys's Cities.- 4. Self, Dialect and Dialogue: The Multilingual Modernism of Wilson Harris.- 5. The Dangerous Multilingualism of Junot Díaz.- 6. Conclusion: The Anglophone Novel and the Threshold of Capacity.