On modern British fiction
By: edited by Zachary Leader.
Contributors: Leader, Zachary.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction I; title: 1. V. S. Pritchett and English Comedy 8; title: JAMES WOOD; title: 2. No Laughing Matter: A Word on Angus Wilson zo; title: P. N. FURBANK; title: 3. Mother Tongue: A Memoir 34; title: IAN MCEWAN; title: 4. Between Waugh and Wodehouse: Comedy and Conservatism 45; title: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS; title: 5. Ladlit 60; title: ELAINE SHOWALTER; title: 6. Enigmas and Homelands 77; title: MICHAEL WOOD; title: 7. No Passes or Documents Are Needed: The Writer at Home in Europe 93; title: HILARY MANTEL; title: 8. Penelope 107; title: WENDY LESSER; title: 9. Why Christopher Isherwood Stopped Writing Fiction 126; title: KATHE RINE BUCKNELL; title: 10. Shaping Modern English Fiction: The Forms of the Content and the Contents of the Form 149; title: VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM; title: 11. The Politics of Narrative in the Post-war Scottish Novel; title: LIAM MCILVANNEY; title: 12. The Ruined Futures of British Science Fiction; title: PATRICK PARRINDER; title: 13. P. D. James and the Distinguished Thing 234; title: MARTIN PRIESTMAN; title: 14. The Novel Adapted for Television 258; title: ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD; title: 15. Against Dryness 265; title: MARTIN AMIS; title: 16. Commissioning and Editing Modern Fiction 270; title: DAN FRANKLIN; title: 17. Before it Becomes Literature: How Fiction Reviewers Have Dealt with the English Novel 284; title: LINDSAY DUGUID.