The Novel Now: Contemporary British FictionISBN: 978-1-4051-1386-1
Paperback
264 pages
January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?.
1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel.
2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan.
3. The Effects of Thatcherism.
4. The New Postmodernists.
Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary.
5. The New Historical Novel.
6. Crime and Spy Fiction.
Part III: Sex.
7. Women.
8. Men.
9. Gay Fiction.
Part IV: Nation, Race and Place.
10. Scotland.
11. England, Englishness and Class.
12. The Question of Elsewhere.
13. Wales.
14. The Troubles.
15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel.
Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading.
Index