The novel now: contemporary British fiction

Abstract

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?. 1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel. 2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan. 3. The Effects of Thatcherism. 4. The New Postmodernists. Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary. 5. The New Historical Novel. 6. Crime and Spy Fiction. Part III: Sex. 7. Women. 8. Men. 9. Gay Fiction. Part IV: Nation, Race and Place. 10. Scotland. 11. England, Englishness and Class. 12. The Question of Elsewhere. 13. Wales. 14. The Troubles. 15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel. Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading. Index