The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?......Page 9
1: Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel......Page 11
2: Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan......Page 20
3: The Effects of Thatcherism......Page 37
4: The New Postmodernists......Page 55
Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary......Page 87
5: The New Historical Novel......Page 89
6: Crime and Spy Fiction......Page 108
Part III: Sex......Page 121
7: Women......Page 123
8: Men......Page 149
9: Gay Fiction......Page 159
Part IV: Nation, Race and Place......Page 167
10: Scotland......Page 169
11: England, Englishness and Class......Page 185
12: The Question of Elsewhere......Page 199
13: Wales......Page 227
14: The Troubles......Page 233
15: Epilogue: The State of the Novel......Page 250
Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading......Page 256
Index......Page 258