A concise companion to contemporary British fiction /
edited by James F. English.
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
- xi, 281 p. ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.