{"product_id":"a-concise-companion-to-contemporary-british-fiction-hardback-9781405120005","title":"A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Hardback) 9781405120005","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames F. English (Edited by), J English (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405120005, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 December 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Blackwell's new \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e to contemporary British fiction is a delight to review. It delivers on its promises to be innovative, highly readable, lively and topical, and it warrants wholehearted endorsement as an essenital addition to any library that is seriously developing resources for undergraduate and taught postgraduate study.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"James English's companion contains a series of fresh, lively and insightful readings of the key figures in post-war British fiction from Martin Amis to Zadie Smith. Its coverage of the multiple, changing contexts - from globalization and the 'new ethnicities' to the rise of book groups and online retailing - in which that fiction is produced and consumed is generously wide-ranging and satisfyingly informative. This is an authoritative and approachable book.\" \u003ci\u003eMichael Greaney, Lancaster University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“James English's \u003ci\u003eA Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to discussions of recent writing. The essays collected here are wide-ranging, well-informed, and critically astute. This book will make a strong contribution to our understanding of the contemporary British novel.” \u003ci\u003eAndrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprises original essays from major scholars.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTopics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEnables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: British Fiction in a Global Frame 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames F. English \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe increasing importance since the 1970s of transnational markets and circuits of exchange, and the consequent repositioning of British fiction in “world literary space.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Institutions of Commerce\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Literary Fiction and the Book Trade 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Todd \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe triangulated relation between (i) authors and agents, (ii) publishers, and (iii) retail booksellers, and\u003cbr\u003ethe rise of the retailers to a position of dominance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Literary Authorship and Celebrity Culture 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames F. English and John Frow \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe phenomenon of literary celebrity and its new articulation of the authorial signature with the brand\u003cbr\u003ename. Authors considered include Martin Amis, J. K. Rowling, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Fay Weldon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Fiction and the Film Industry 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Higson \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe interaction of contemporary British literature and the cinema, considered as both businesses and\u003cbr\u003ecultures. Discusses the full range of novels adapted for the screen, with an extended case study of the\u003cbr\u003eadaptation of A. S. Byatt’s Possession.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Elaborations of Empire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Tropicalizing London: British Fiction and the Discipline of Postcolonialism Nico Israel 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe emergence of postcolonial theory and, subsequently, of a canon of postcolonial novels. Discusses such theorists as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, and Paul Gilroy, and the novelists Anita Desai, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, V. S. Naipaul, Ben Okri, and Salman Rushdie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Procter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe shifting relationship between race, writing, and representation from the late 1970s to the present, with particular reference to the work of Monica Ali, Farrukh Dhondy, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Devolving the Scottish Novel 121\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCairns Craig \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Scottish fiction in the context of Scottish nationalism and the politics of devolution, with reference to the work of Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, and Alan Warner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Northern Irish Fiction: Provisionals and Pataphysicians 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Brannigan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow fiction in Northern Ireland has responded to the politics of the interregnum since 1993, with particular attention to the work of Seamus Deane, Glenn Patterson, Deirdre Madden, Robert McLiam Wilson, and Ciaran Carson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Mutations of Form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Historical Turn in British Fiction 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuzanne Keen \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rising status of historical fiction in contemporary Britain as more self-consciously “literary” forms of the genre have emerged alongside traditional verisimilar historical novels and women’s historical romances. Among the many authors discussed are A. S. Byatt, Bernadine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, Craig Raine, Salman Rushdie, and Edmund White.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Woman Writer and the Continuities of Feminism 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Waugh \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe persistent concerns and contradictions in women’s fiction since the 1960s, with reference to Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Helen Fielding, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and Fay Weldon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Queer Fiction: The Ambiguous Emergence of a Genre 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert L. Caserio \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe consolidation of queer fiction as a recognized and important literary category in Britain, and the ongoing tension between this body of literature and the politics of gay rights and gay identity. Writers considered include Pat Barker, Neil Bartlett, Alan Hollinghurst, Jackie Kay, Adam Mars-Jones, Colm Toibin, and Jeanette Winterson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Demise of Class Fiction 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDominic Head \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe waning of class consciousness in British fiction as the traditional, adversarial model of class has given way to new understandings both of social inequity and of collective empowerment. With reference to a range of writers, including Nell Dunn, Livi Michael, Alan Sillitoe, and Raymond Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 What the Porter Saw: On the Academic Novel 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Robbins \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe academic novel considered as a disguised version of the upward mobility story, with the university serving as a figure for the welfare state, the frame in which the ambiguities of upward mobility are played out. 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