03395nam 2200685 a 450 99620550520331620210209195118.01-4051-6497-21-280-28611-397866102861190-470-79990-00-470-75767-11-4051-5215-X(CKB)1000000000342002(EBL)243586(OCoLC)475964659(SSID)ssj0000128264(PQKBManifestationID)11137104(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128264(PQKBWorkID)10069434(PQKB)11318507(MiAaPQ)EBC243586(MiAaPQ)EBC4956237(Au-PeEL)EBL4956237(CaONFJC)MIL28611(OCoLC)1027142317(PPN)148591671(EXLCZ)99100000000034200220050428d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA concise companion to contemporary British fiction[electronic resource] /edited by James F. English1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell Pub.20061 online resource (295 p.)Blackwell concise companions to literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-2001-0 1-4051-2000-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 adaptationBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.823.91409823/.91409English James F.1958-623462MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996205505203316A concise companion to contemporary British fiction2275265UNISA