The novel now : contemporary British fiction / Richard Bradford.
Material type: TextPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: vii, 259 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1405113855
- 1405113863
- 9781405113854
- 9781405113861
- 823.91409 22
- PR881 .B684 2007
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 823.91409 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A375702B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.
I: Realism versus modernism: win, lose or draw? -- Before now. A brief account of the pre-1970s British novel -- Something unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan -- The effects of thatcherism -- The new postmodernists -- II: Excursions from the ordinary -- The new historical novel -- Crime and spy fiction -- III: Sex -- Women -- Men -- Gay fiction -- IV: Nation, race and place -- Scotland -- England, Englishness and class -- The question of elsewhere -- Wales -- The troubles -- Epilogue: the state of the novel.
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.
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