A companion to the British and Irish novel
Subtitle: 1945-2000
By: edited by Brian W. Shaffer
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 28; Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 28.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9781405167451
Subjects: Literature; Irish authors; English fiction; Intellectual life; History and criticism; In literature; Handbooks, manuals
Description: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. --from publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internet Archive - 2

Internet Archive 2
Table of contents: title: Literary response to the Second World War  -- Damon Marcel Decoste; title: 'Angry' Decade and after  -- Dale Salwak; title: English dystopian satire in context  -- M. Keith Booker; title: Feminist novel in the wake of Virginia Woolf  -- Roberta Rubenstein; title: Postmodern fiction and the rise of critical theory  -- Patricia Waugh; title: Novel and the end of empire  -- Reed Way Dasenbrock; title: Postcolonial novels and theories  -- Feroza Jussawalla; title: Fictions of belonging : national identity and the novel in Ireland and Scotland  -- Gerard Carruthers; title: Black-British interventions  -- John Skinner; title: Recuperation of history in British and Irish fiction  -- Margaret Scanlan; title: Literary prize phenomenon in context  -- James F. English; title: Novelistic production and the publishing industry in Britain and Ireland  -- Claire Squires; title: novel and the rise of film and video : adaptation and British cinema  -- Brian McFarlane; title: English heritage industry and other trends in the novel at the millennium  -- Peter Childs; title: Samuel Beckett's Watt  -- S.E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley; title: George Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four  -- Erika Gottlieb; title: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited and other late novels  -- Bernard Schweizer; title: Modernism's swansong : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano  -- Patrick A. McCarthy; title: Graham Greene's Heart of the matter and other late novels  -- Cedric Watts; title: William Golding's Lord of the flies and other early novels  -- Kevin McCarron; title: Amis, father and son  -- Merritt Moseley; title: Iris Murdoch  -- Margaret Moan Rowe; title: Academic satire : the campus novel in context  -- Kenneth Womack; title: Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet  -- Julius Rowan Raper; title: Oxford fantasists : C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. tolkien  -- Peter J. Schakel; title: Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie  -- Bryan Cheyette; title: Doris Lessing's The golden notebook  -- Judith Kegan Gardiner; title: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea  -- John J. Su; title: John Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman  -- James Acheson; title: Angela Carter  -- Nicola Pitchford; title: Margaret Drabble  -- Margaret Moan Rowe; title: V.S. Naipaul  -- Timothy Weiss; title: Salman Rushdie  -- Nico Israel; title: Irish novel after joyce  -- Donna Potts; title: Anita brookner  -- Cheryl Alexander Malcolm; title: Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot  -- Merritt Moseley; title: Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day  -- Cynthia F. Wong; title: Ian McEwan  -- Rebecca L. Walkowitz; title: Graham Swift  -- Donald P. Kaczvinsky; title: Scottish new wave  -- David Goldie; title: A.S. Byatt's Possession : a romance  -- Lynn Wells; title: Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy -- Anne Whitehead.