A companion to the British and Irish novel 1945-2000 / edited by Brian W. Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaffer, Brian W., 1960-

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English fiction.

English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Ireland.

Ireland--In literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (606 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene's 'Heart of the Matter', Jean Rhys's 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day' Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses ov

Contents:

The literary response to the Second World War / Damon Marcel Decoste

The 'Angry' Decade and after / Dale Salwak

English dystopian satire in context / M. Keith Booker

The feminist novel in the wake of Virginia Woolf / Roberta Rubenstein

Postmodern fiction and the rise of critical theory / Patricia Waugh

The novel and the end of empire / Reed Way Dasenbrock

Postcolonial novels and theories / Feroza Jussawalla

Fictions of belonging : national identity and the novel in Ireland and Scotland / Gerard Carruthers

Black-British interventions / John Skinner

The recuperation of history in British and Irish fiction / Margaret Scanlan

The literary prize phenomenon in context / James F. English

Novelistic production and the publishing industry in Britain and Ireland / Claire Squires

The novel and the rise of film and video : adaptation and British cinema / Brian McFarlane

The English heritage industry and other trends in the novel at the millennium / Peter Childs

Samuel Beckett's Watt / S. E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley

George Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Erika Gottlieb

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited and other late novels / Bernard Schweizer

Modernism's swansong : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano / Patrick A. McCarthy

Graham Greene's Heart of the matter and other late novels / Cedric Watts

William Golding's Lord of the flies and other early novels / Kevin McCarron

Amis, father and son / Merritt Moseley

Iris Murdoch / Margaret Moan Rowe

Academic satire : the campus novel in context / Kenneth Womack

Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet / Julius Rowan Raper

The Oxford fantasists : C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. tolkien / Peter J. Schakel

Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Bryan Cheyette

Doris Lessing's The golden notebook / Judith Kegan Gardiner

Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / John J. Su

John Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman / James Acheson

Angela Carter / Nicola Pitchford

Margaret Drabble / Margaret Moan Rowe

V.S. Naipaul / Timothy Weiss

Salman Rushdie / Nico Israel

The irish novel after joyce / Donna Potts

Anita brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm

Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot / Merritt Moseley

Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day / Cynthia F. Wong

Ian McEwan / Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Graham Swift / Donald P. Kaczvinsky

The Scottish new wave / David Goldie

A.S. Byatt's Possession : a romance / Lynn Wells

Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy / Anne Whitehead.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610743377

9781782684268

1782684263

9781280743375

1280743379

9781405165099

140516509X

9780470757611

0470757612

9781405156165

1405156163

OCLC:

212128020