British fiction of the 1990s
By: edited by Nick Bentley.
Contributors: Bentley, Nick.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mapping the millennium : themes and trends in contemporary British fiction / Nick Bentley; title: From excess to new world order / Fred Botting; title: "Refugees from time": history, death and the flight from reality in contemporary writing / Andrzej Gasiorek; title: Science and fiction in the 1990s / Patricia Waugh; title: British science fiction in the 1990s : politics and genre / Roger Luckhurst; title: The McReal thing : personal/national identity in Julian Barnes's England, England / Sarah Henstra; title: Cyberspace and the body : Jeanette Winterson's The.powerbook / Sonya Andermahr; title: "Fascinating violation" : Ian McEwan's children / Peter Childs; title: "Tongues of bone" : A.L. Kennedy and the problems of articulation / Helen Stoddart; title: Mr Wroe's virgins : the "other Victorians" and recent fiction / B.E. Maidment; title: Pat Barker's vanishing boundaries / Lynda Prescott; title: Singular events : the "as if" of Beryl Bainbridge's Every man for himself / Fiona Becket; title: Iain Sinclair's millennial fiction : the example of slow chocolate autopsy / Julian Wolfreys; title: Hedgemony? suburban space in the buddha of suburbia / Susan Brook; title: Iain Sinclair : the psychotic geographer treads the borderlines / Peter Brooker.