The Contemporary British Novel

James Acheson; Sarah Ross

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2005

The Contemporary British Novel

James Acheson and Sarah Ross

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748626243

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About this book

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Caryl Philips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson.

The book will be of interest not only to students, teachers and lecturers, but to the general reader seeking help in approaching the often baffling novels of the recent past.

Key Features

Literary critical 'isms' are described in clear, jargon-free language.
Focuses on British fiction since 1980 giving coverage of established authors such as Angela Carter and Ian McEwan as well as little addressed novelists such as James Kelman and Zadie Smith.
Essays are by leading scholars in contemporary fiction.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Realism and other -isms
1. Realism, Dreams and the Unconscious in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro Frederick M. Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Ian McEwan: Contemporary Realism and the Novel of Ideas Judith Seaboyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. The Unnatural Scene: The Fiction of Irvine Welsh Alan Riach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. Angela Carter’s Magic Realism David Punter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5. Facticity, or Something Like That: The Novels of James Kelman Laurence Nicoll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
6. One Nation, Oneself: Politics, Place and Identity in Martin Amis’ Fiction Daniel Lea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Part II: Postcolonialism and other -isms
7. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Hanif Kureishi: Failed Revolutions Bruce King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
8. Salman Rushdie’s Fathers Hermione Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
9. Postcolonialism and ‘The Figure of the Jew’: Caryl Phillips and Zadie Smith Bart Moore-Gilbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
10. Mingling and Metamorphing: Articulations of Feminism and Postcoloniality in Marina Warner’s Fiction Chantal Zabus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part III: Feminism and other -isms
11. Regeneration, Redemption, Resurrection: Pat Barker and the Problem of Evil Sarah C. E. Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
12. ‘Partial to Intensity’: The Novels of A. L. Kennedy Glenda Norquay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
13. Gender and Creativity in the Fictions of Janice Galloway Dorothy McMillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
14. Appetite, Desire and Belonging in the Novels of Rose Tremain Sarah Sceats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
15. Desire for Syzygy in the Novels of A. S. Byatt Katherine Tarbox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
16 Jeanette Winterson and the Lesbian Postmodern: Story-telling, Performativity and the Gay Aesthetic Paulina Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Part IV: Postmodernism and other -isms
17. (Re)Constituted Pasts: Postmodern Historicism in the Novels of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
18. Colonising the Past: The Novels of Peter Ackroyd David Leon Higdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
19. Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror Cairns Craig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: December 14, 2005
ISBN: 9780748626243