The Cambridge companion to British fiction : 1980-2018 / edited by Peter Boxall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boxall, Peter, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Summary:

From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape. Alongside this political shift, we have seen transformations to the public sphere caused by the arrival of the internet and of social media, and changes in the global balance of power brought about by 9/11, the emergence of China and India as superpowers, and latterly the British vote to leave the European Union. British fiction of the period is intimately interwoven with these historical shifts. This collection brings together some of the most penetrating critics of the contemporary, to explore the role that the British novel has had in shaping the cultural landscape of our time, at a moment, in the wake of the EU referendum of 2016, when the question of what it means to be British has become newly urgent.

Contents:

Introduction. Framing the present / Peter Boxall

The 1980s / Bridget Chalk

The 1990s / Pieter Vermeulen

Post-millennial literature / Leigh Wilson

British writing and the limits of the human / Gabriele Griffin

Form and fiction, 1980-the present / Kevin Brazil

Institutions of fiction / Caroline Wintersgill

Late modernism, postmodernism, and after / Martin Eve

Experiment and the genre novel / Caroline Edwards

Transgression and experimentation: the historical novel / Jerome de Groot

Film and fiction from 1980-the present / Petra Rau

The Mid Atlantics / Ben Masters

Fiction, religion and freedom of speech, from 'The Rushdie affair' to 7/7 / Stephen Morton

Sexual dissidence and British writing / Rebecca Pohl

British cosmopolitanism after 1980 / Patrick Deer

Conclusion. Imagining the future / Peter Boxall.

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ISBN:

9781108649865

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