Kate Atkinson / Armelle Parey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parey, Armelle, author.

Series:

Contemporary British novelists.

Contemporary British novelists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atkinson, Kate--Criticism and interpretation.

Atkinson, Kate.

Atkinson, Kate--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores the major themes and formal concerns in Kate Atkinson's fiction (history, memory, feminism, metafiction, genre revision). It situates Atkinson's ouvre in terms of an aesthetics of hydridity that runs through her eleven novels, one play and one collection of stories to date.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Series editor's foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Kate Atkinson's aesthetics of hybridity

1 Coming-of-age novels: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird

2 Forays into other genres: theatre and short stories

3 Defamiliarising detective fiction with Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News?, Started Early, Took My Dog and Big Sky

4 Re-imagining the war in Life After Life, A God in Ruins and Transcription

5 Of endings in Kate Atkinson's novels

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 23, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Parey, Armelle Kate Atkinson

ISBN:

9781526148537

OCLC:

1349282142