Contemporary British Fiction
$75.85
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2008
Summary
This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism,gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broaderdebates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study ofcontemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and culturalevents. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780748624201 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0748624201 |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature |
| Author: | Nick Bentley |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 364g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
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About The Author
Nick Bentley
Nick Bentley lectures in English literature at Keele University. His main research interests are in post-1945 British fiction and literary and cultural theory. He is author of Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (Peter Lang, 2007) and editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (Routledge, 2005). He has published journal articles on Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith, Colin MacInnes, Sam Selvon, and the representations of youth in British New Left writing.
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