The novel now
Subtitle: contemporary British fiction
By: Richard Bradford.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781405113854; 9781405113861
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Realism versus modernism: win, lose or draw?; title: Before now. A brief account of the pre-1970s British novel; title: Something unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan; title: The effects of thatcherism; title: The new postmodernists; title: II: Excursions from the ordinary; title: The new historical novel; title: Crime and spy fiction; title: III: Sex; title: Women; title: Men; title: Gay fiction; title: IV: Nation, race and place; title: Scotland; title: England, Englishness and class; title: The question of elsewhere; title: Wales; title: The troubles; title: Epilogue: the state of the novel.