The Cambridge companion to British fiction : 1980-2018 / edited by Peter Boxall.
| Call Number | 823/.91409 |
| Title | The Cambridge companion to British fiction : 1980-2018 / edited by Peter Boxall. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge companions to topics |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jun 2019). |
| Contents | Introduction. Framing the present / Peter Boxall -- The 1980s / Bridget Chalk -- The 1990s / Pieter Vermeulen -- Post-millennial literature / Leigh Wilson -- British writing and the limits of the human / Gabriele Griffin -- Form and fiction, 1980-the present / Kevin Brazil -- Institutions of fiction / Caroline Wintersgill -- Late modernism, postmodernism, and after / Martin Eve -- Experiment and the genre novel / Caroline Edwards -- Transgression and experimentation: the historical novel / Jerome de Groot -- Film and fiction from 1980-the present / Petra Rau -- The Mid Atlantics / Ben Masters -- Fiction, religion and freedom of speech, from 'The Rushdie affair' to 7/7 / Stephen Morton -- Sexual dissidence and British writing / Rebecca Pohl -- British cosmopolitanism after 1980 / Patrick Deer -- Conclusion. Imagining the future / Peter Boxall. |
| Summary | From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape. Alongside this political shift, we have seen transformations to the public sphere caused by the arrival of the internet and of social media, and changes in the global balance of power brought about by 9/11, the emergence of China and India as superpowers, and latterly the British vote to leave the European Union. British fiction of the period is intimately interwoven with these historical shifts. This collection brings together some of the most penetrating critics of the contemporary, to explore the role that the British novel has had in shaping the cultural landscape of our time, at a moment, in the wake of the EU referendum of 2016, when the question of what it means to be British has become newly urgent. |
| Added Author | Boxall, Peter, editor. |
| Subject | English fiction 20th century History and criticism. English fiction 21st century History and criticism. |
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| Summary | From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that dramatically reshaped the British landscape. Alongside this political shift, we have seen transformations to the public sphere caused by the arrival of the internet and of social media, and changes in the global balance of power brought about by 9/11, the emergence of China and India as superpowers, and latterly the British vote to leave the European Union. British fiction of the period is intimately interwoven with these historical shifts. This collection brings together some of the most penetrating critics of the contemporary, to explore the role that the British novel has had in shaping the cultural landscape of our time, at a moment, in the wake of the EU referendum of 2016, when the question of what it means to be British has become newly urgent. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jun 2019). |
| Contents | Introduction. Framing the present / Peter Boxall -- The 1980s / Bridget Chalk -- The 1990s / Pieter Vermeulen -- Post-millennial literature / Leigh Wilson -- British writing and the limits of the human / Gabriele Griffin -- Form and fiction, 1980-the present / Kevin Brazil -- Institutions of fiction / Caroline Wintersgill -- Late modernism, postmodernism, and after / Martin Eve -- Experiment and the genre novel / Caroline Edwards -- Transgression and experimentation: the historical novel / Jerome de Groot -- Film and fiction from 1980-the present / Petra Rau -- The Mid Atlantics / Ben Masters -- Fiction, religion and freedom of speech, from 'The Rushdie affair' to 7/7 / Stephen Morton -- Sexual dissidence and British writing / Rebecca Pohl -- British cosmopolitanism after 1980 / Patrick Deer -- Conclusion. Imagining the future / Peter Boxall. |
| Subject | English fiction 20th century History and criticism. English fiction 21st century History and criticism. |
| Multimedia |