A concise companion to contemporary British fiction
By: edited by James F. English.
Contributors: English, James F., 1958-
Series: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781405120005; 9781405120012
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Description: "A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. The book focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era, and the resulting transformation of such key areas of literary practice as publishing, bookselling, book reviewing, and higher education." "Although the volume's original contributions range across a variety of topics-from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel, and controversies over the celebrity author, to the changing relationship between literature and the cinema - each of the contributors attends carefully to the institutional and economic contexts of literary production, and to the contending forces that have shaped the emergent canon of contemporary British fiction." "A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction will enable students to read any work from the last quarter century of British fiction with a much clearer ense of where it fits within British cultural life. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd; title: Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow; title: Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson; title: Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel; title: New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter; title: Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig; title: Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan; title: The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene; title: The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh; title: Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio; title: The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head; title: What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.