TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tew,Philip
AU  - Mengham,Rod
TI  - British fiction today
SN  - 0826487327
AV  - PR889 .B75 2006
U1  - 823.91409 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Sect. I; Modern lives, contemporary living --; Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew --; Ch. 1; The middle years of Martin Amis; Joseph Brooker --; Ch. 2; Julian Barnes and a case of English identity; Dominic Head --; Ch. 3; Genre, repetition and history in Jonathan Coe; Pamela Thurschwell --; Ch. 4; Alan Hollinghurst and homosexual identity; Kaye Mitchell --; Sect. II; Distortions and dreams --; Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew --; Ch. 5; Reconsidering the novels of Peter Ackroyd; Tamas Benyei --; Ch. 6; Jenny Diski's millennial imagination 1997-2004; Philip Tew --; Ch. 7; Assessing Ben Okri's fiction 1995-2005; Christopher Ringrose --; Ch. 8; Salman Rushdie : paradox and truth; Robert Eaglestone --; Sect. III; States of identity --; Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew --; Ch. 9; Possessing Toby Litt's ghost story; Leigh Wilson --; Ch. 10; The ethical otherworld : Ian McEwan's fiction; Lynn Wells --; Ch. 11; Identifying the precious in Zadie Smith's On beauty; Fiona Tolan --; Ch. 12; Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping; Sonya Andermahr --; Sect. IV; Histories --; Introduction; Rod Mengham and Philip Tew --; Ch. 13; Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy; Nick Hubble --; Ch. 14; 'The loom of the inordinate' : A. S. Byatt's woven realism; Wendy Wheeler --; Ch. 15; Fiction's history : Adam Thorpe; Rod Mengham --; Ch. 16; Prior knowledge : Sarah Waters and the Victorians; Mark Wormald
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