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Novel Now : Contemporary British Fiction

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: USA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.Edition: 1Description: 259pISBN:
  • 9781405113861
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.91409 BRA/N Q7
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Contents:
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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Book 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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