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Record Nr.

UNISA996205505203316

Titolo

A concise companion to contemporary British fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James F. English

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-4051-6497-2

1-280-28611-3

9786610286119

0-470-79990-0

0-470-75767-1

1-4051-5215-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

EnglishJames F. <1958->

Disciplina

823.91409

823/.91409

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.

Sommario/riassunto

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era.Comprises original essays from major scholars.Topics range from



the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author.The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation