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1945-2000

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A companion to the British and Irish novel

1945-2000

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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. --from publisher description.

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Blackwell
Language
English
Pages
583

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Table of Contents

Literary response to the Second World War -- Damon Marcel Decoste
'Angry' Decade and after -- Dale Salwak
English dystopian satire in context -- M. Keith Booker
Feminist novel in the wake of Virginia Woolf -- Roberta Rubenstein
Postmodern fiction and the rise of critical theory -- Patricia Waugh
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
Recuperation of history in British and Irish fiction -- Margaret Scanlan
Literary prize phenomenon in context -- James F. English
Novelistic production and the publishing industry in Britain and Ireland -- Claire Squires
novel and the rise of film and video : adaptation and British cinema -- Brian McFarlane
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
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
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
Scottish new wave -- David Goldie
A.S. Byatt's Possession : a romance -- Lynn Wells
Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy -- Anne Whitehead.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series
Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 28, Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 28.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.09
Library of Congress
PR881 .C655 2005, PR881

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 583 pages
Number of pages
583

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27789269M
Internet Archive
companiontobriti0000unse
ISBN 10
1405167459
ISBN 13
9781405167451
OCLC/WorldCat
191719844

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