In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a
special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the …

This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the
criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism …

A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film
texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and …

This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to
environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in …

From modernist inquiry into the metropolitan mind to postmodernist interest in the
sociocultural construction of urban space, creative theory and practice of the last century …

As a conceptual basis for organizing, the category of Asian American identities was founded
upon the utility of large-scale identity politics in the late 1960s. Its collective agenda targeted …

Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays,
reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential of …

The aim of this dissertation is to study postmodern historical novels, which are labeled
“historiographic metafictions”(Hutcheon 1989: 92), in terms of their allowing for different …

There is... a certain kind of contemporary avant-garde art which is said to be neither
modernist nor antimodernist, but postmodernist; it continues the modernist critique of …

It is now rather commonplace to assert that contemporary British literature does not really
engage with modernism. Whether or not critics contend that the 1940s, 1950s, and early …