TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradford,Richard
TI  - The novel now: contemporary British fiction 
SN  - 1405113855
AV  - PR881 .B684 2007
U1  - 823.91409 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006019317-b.html
ER  -