British fiction today /
edited by Philip Tew and Rod Mengham.
- xxi, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modern lives, contemporary living -- Introduction / The middle years of Martin Amis / Julian Barnes and a case of English identity / Genre, repetition and history in Jonathan Coe / Alan Hollinghurst and homosexual identity / Distortions and dreams -- Introduction / Reconsidering the novels of Peter Ackroyd / Jenny Diski's millennial imagination 1997-2004 / Assessing Ben Okri's fiction 1995-2005 / Salman Rushdie : paradox and truth / States of identity -- Introduction / Possessing Toby Litt's ghost story / The ethical otherworld : Ian McEwan's fiction / Identifying the precious in Zadie Smith's On beauty / Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping / Histories -- Introduction / Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy / 'The loom of the inordinate' : A. S. Byatt's woven realism / Fiction's history : Adam Thorpe / Prior knowledge : Sarah Waters and the Victorians / Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- Joseph Brooker -- Dominic Head -- Pamela Thurschwell -- Kaye Mitchell -- Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- Tamas Benyei -- Philip Tew -- Christopher Ringrose -- Robert Eaglestone -- Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- Leigh Wilson -- Lynn Wells -- Fiona Tolan -- Sonya Andermahr -- Rod Mengham and Philip Tew -- Nick Hubble -- Wendy Wheeler -- Rod Mengham -- Mark Wormald. Sect. I. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Sect. II. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Sect. III. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Sect. IV. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16.
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English fiction--History and criticism.--Great Britain--20th century English fiction--History and criticism.--Great Britain--21st century