Bradford, Richard <br/><br/>
Novel Now : Contemporary British Fiction 

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 - USA:  Blackwell Publishing,  2007. 
 - 259p. 
<br/><br/> 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<br/> 
<br/><br/>TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>Preface.<br/>Acknowledgements.<br/><br/>Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?.<br/><br/>1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel.<br/><br/>2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan.<br/><br/>3. The Effects of Thatcherism.<br/><br/>4. The New Postmodernists.<br/><br/>Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary.<br/><br/>5. The New Historical Novel.<br/><br/>6. Crime and Spy Fiction.<br/><br/>Part III: Sex.<br/><br/>7. Women.<br/><br/>8. Men.<br/><br/>9. Gay Fiction.<br/><br/>Part IV: Nation, Race and Place.<br/><br/>10. Scotland.<br/><br/>11. England, Englishness and Class.<br/><br/>12. The Question of Elsewhere.<br/><br/>13. Wales.<br/><br/>14. The Troubles.<br/><br/>15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel.<br/><br/>Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading.<br/><br/>Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405113861 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.91409  / BRA/N Q7