Novel Now : Contemporary British Fiction
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: USA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.Edition: 1Description: 259pISBN:- 9781405113861
- 823.91409 BRA/N Q7
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Dept. of Malayalam Fiction | Dept. of Malayalam | Fiction | 823.91409 BRA/N Q7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MAL50030 |
This survey of the complex landscape of contemporary fiction in Britain and Ireland from 1970 to the present day provides a detailed account of familiar figures such as Julian Barnes, Salmon Rushdie and Will Self, and offers a thorough account of the state of contemporary fiction in Britain
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?.
1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel.
2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan.
3. The Effects of Thatcherism.
4. The New Postmodernists.
Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary.
5. The New Historical Novel.
6. Crime and Spy Fiction.
Part III: Sex.
7. Women.
8. Men.
9. Gay Fiction.
Part IV: Nation, Race and Place.
10. Scotland.
11. England, Englishness and Class.
12. The Question of Elsewhere.
13. Wales.
14. The Troubles.
15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel.
Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading.
Index
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