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Author Bentley, Nick.

Title Contemporary British fiction / Nick Bentley.

Publication Info. Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages).
text file
Series Edinburgh critical guides to literature
Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture. A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes:. (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory.
Contents Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Narrative Forms: Postmodernism and Realism; 2. Writing Contemporary Ethnicities; 3. Gender and Sexuality; 4. History, Memory and Writing; 5. Narratives of Cultural Space; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index.
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Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Bentley, Nick. Contemporary British fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008 9780748624195 0748624198 (Uk)014668688
ISBN 0748630376 (electronic book)
9780748630370 (electronic book)
9780748624201 (paper)
0748624201 (paper)
9780748624195 (cloth)
0748624198 (cloth)
0748624198 (Cloth)
0748624201 (Paper)
Standard No. XA04964X
9786611947682