A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [electronic resource] / edited by James F. English.
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era.Comprises original essays fr...
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Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2006.
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Series: | Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd
- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow
- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson
- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel
- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter
- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig
- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan
- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene
- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh
- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio
- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head
- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.