British Fiction of the 1990s (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bentley, Nick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared in British fiction during the 1990s, this book brings together leading academics in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134292493
• Artikelnr.: 38253747

Autorenporträt

Nick Bentley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mapping the Millennium: Themes and Trends in Contemporary
British Fiction Nick Bentley Part 1: Millennial Anxieties 1. From Excess to
New World Order Fred Botting 2. 'Refugees from Time': History, Death and
the Flight from Reality in Contemporary Writing Andrzej Gasiorek 3. Science
and Fiction in the 1990s Patricia Waugh 4. British Science Fiction in the
1990s: Politics and Genre Roger Luckhurst Part 2: Identity at the Fin de
Siécle 5. The McReal Thing: Personal/National Identity in Julian Barnes's
England, England Sarah Henstra 6. Cyberspace and the Body: Jeanette
Winterson's The PowerBook Sonya Andermahr 7. 'Fascinating Violation': Ian
McEwan's Children Peter Childs 8. 'Tongues of Bone': A.L. Kennedy and the
Problems of Articulation Helen Stoddart Part 3: Historical Fictions 9. Mr
Wroe's Virgins: the 'Other Victorians' and Recent Fiction B.E. Maidment
10. Pat Barker's Vanishing Boundaries Lynda Prescott 11. Singular Events:
the 'as if' of Beryl Bainbridge's Every Man for Himself Fiona Becket Part
4: Narrative Geographies 12. Iain Sinclair's Millennial Fiction: The
Example of Slow Chocolate Autopsy Julian Wolfreys 13. Hedgemony: Suburban
Space in The Buddha of Suburbia Susan Brook 14. Iain Sinclair: The
Psychotic Geographer Treads the Borderlines Peter Brooker