This important new book provides a comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender, myth and history, postcolonialism and urban culture. In a series of lively and accessible essays, key critics introduce a broad range of leading British writers, including Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Zadie Smith. Offering an illuminating analysis and contextualiztion of British fiction today, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary literature.
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"[An] insightful, perceptive and nuanced analysis ... the collection is a landmark in the critical analysis of current literary culture." Times Higher Education Supplement
"I was impressed by the range and conscientious skill of the critics... this collection discusses much of the best in contemporary British writing, and deserves to be successful." Sir Frank Kermode, formerly King Edward Professor of English at Cambridge
"An admirably ambitious attempt to map the contemporary literary scene, impressive both in the range and the depth of its coverage. Certainly the sharpest and most up-to-date book I have read on the subject." Jonathan Coe
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This important new book provides a comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender, myth and history, postcolonialism and urban culture. In a series of lively and accessible essays, key critics introduce a broad range of leading British writers, including Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Will Self, Pat Barker, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Zadie Smith. Offering an illuminating analysis and contextualiztion of British fiction today, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary literature.
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After 1979 Britain seemed tentatively aware that a new phase of history might well have begun, which if acknowledged, separated it from the earlier post-war period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Jonathan Cape, Angela Carter, New York, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Salman Rushdie, White Teeth, Graham Swift, Caryl Phillips, Midnight's Children, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi, Sexing the Cherry, Kingsley Amis, Will Self, Gut Symmetries, James Kelman, Possible Dance, The Moor's Last Sigh, Granta Books, Last Orders, Lights Out, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Being Dead New!
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After 1979 Britain seemed tentatively aware that a new phase of history might well have begun, which if acknowledged, separated it from the earlier post-war period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subsequent page references, cultural hybridity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jonathan Cape, Angela Carter, New York, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Salman Rushdie, White Teeth, Graham Swift, Caryl Phillips, Midnight's Children, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi, Sexing the Cherry, Kingsley Amis, Will Self, Gut Symmetries, James Kelman, Possible Dance, The Moor's Last Sigh, Granta Books, Last Orders, Lights Out, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Being Dead New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- How the Dead Live by Will Self on 7 pages
- Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter on 7 pages
- Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson on 6 pages
- Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie on 6 pages
- Looking for the Possible Dance by A. L. Kennedy on 5 pages
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- The Postcolonial Novel (PTLC - Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature) by Richard Lane in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Postcolonial Novel (PTLC - Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature) by Richard Lane in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by James F. English on page 211
- Adaptation and Appropriation (The New Critical Idiom) by Julie Sanders in Back Matter
- Beyond Postmodernism: Reassessments in Literature, Theory, and Culture by Klaus Stierstorfer in Back Matter
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