A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000ISBN: 978-1-4051-1375-5
Hardcover
608 pages
December 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves
as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and
Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the
millennium.
- Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman
Rushdie
- Provides readings of key novels, including Graham
Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean
Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo
Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’
- Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and
the postcolonial novel
- Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends,
such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon
- Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed