Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000

Preface.

1. Introduction: Contexts and Concepts for Reading the Novel in English, 1950-2000.

2. Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (1953).

3. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954).

4. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958).

5. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961).

6. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).

7. J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980).

8. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985).

9. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989).

10. Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992).

11. Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996).

Index