Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: What Happens Now....Pages 1-14
‘Such a Thing as Avant-Garde Has Ceased to Exist’: The Hidden Legacies of the British Experimental Novel....Pages 15-33
Tough Shit Erich Auerbach: Contingency and Estrangement in David Peace’s Occupied City and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher ....Pages 34-48
When the Two Sevens Clash: David Peace’s Nineteen Seventy-Seven as ‘Occult History’....Pages 49-65
Remaindered Books: Glen Duncan’s Twenty-First Century Novels....Pages 66-80
‘The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross’: Stepping Across Lines in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown ....Pages 81-96
‘The Private Rooms and Public Haunts’: Theatricality and the City of London in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White ....Pages 97-114
‘This is my Opa. Do you remember him killing the Jews?’ Rachel Seiffert’s ‘Micha’ and the Transgenerational Haunting of a Silenced Past....Pages 115-131
A Voice without a Name: Gothic Homelessness in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me ....Pages 132-146
Ghosts of Postmodernity: Spectral Epistemology and Haunting in Hilary Mantel’s Fludd and Beyond Black ....Pages 147-161
Intimations of Immortality: Sémiologies of Ageing and the Lineaments of Eternity in Contemporary Prose....Pages 162-182
Crosshatching: Boundary Crossing in the Post-Millennial British Boom....Pages 183-196
‘You just know when the world is about to break apart’: Utopia, Dystopia and New Global Uncertainties in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army ....Pages 197-211
Finding the Right Kind of Attention: Dystopia and Transcendence in John Burnside’s Glister ....Pages 212-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-239