Contemporary novelists : British fiction since 1970

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Author:

Childs, Peter, 1962-

ISBN:

9781403911209

9781403911193

Personal Author:

Childs, Peter, 1962-

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

Introduction : the novel today and yesterday -- 1. Martin Amis : Lucre, love, and literature -- 2. Pat Barker : in the shadow of monstrosities -- 3. Julian Barnes : 'a mixture of genres' -- 4. Angela Carter : the demythologizing business -- 5. Kazuo Ishiguro : remain in dreams -- 6. Hanif Kureishi : in black and white -- 7. Ian McEwan : the child in us all -- 8. Salman Rushdie : a long geographical perspective -- 9. Zadie Smith : searching for the inescapable -- 10. Graham Swift : past present -- 11. Irvine Welsh : sex and drugs and violence -- 12. Jeanette Winterson : boundaries and desire -- Conclusion : the novel today and tomorrow.

Subject Term:

English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

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Summary

Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent writers, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing on their most-studied writings, Childs develops new readings of these authors' key novels, while the introduction explains the dominant concerns of British fiction from 1970-2003, the period's historical context, and the "state of fiction" at the beginning of the twenty-first century.