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The novel now : contemporary British fiction / Richard Bradford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: vii, 259 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1405113855
  • 1405113863
  • 9781405113854
  • 9781405113861
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.91409 22
LOC classification:
  • PR881 .B684 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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