In this volume, fourteen of today's very best novelists and critics join forces to create a landmark study of the last 50 years of British fiction.
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In this volume, fourteen of today's very best novelists and critics join forces to create a landmark study of the last 50 years of British fiction.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 319 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2002072743 Type of material Book Main title On modern British fiction / edited by Zachary Leader. Published/Created Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Description viii, 319 p.; 23 cm. ISBN LC classification PR883. O5 2002 Related names Leader, Zachary. Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction I--1. V. S. Pritchett and English Comedy 8--JAMES WOOD--2. No Laughing Matter: A Word on Angus Wilson zo--P. N. FURBANK--3. Mother Tongue: A Memoir 34--IAN MCEWAN--4. Between Waugh and Wodehouse: Comedy and Conservatism 45--CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS--5. Ladlit 60--ELAINE SHOWALTER--6. Enigmas and Homelands 77--MICHAEL WOOD--7. No Passes or Documents Are Needed: The Writer at Home in Europe 93--HILARY MANTEL--8. Penelope 107--WENDY LESSER--9. Why Christopher Isherwood Stopped Writing Fiction 126--KATHE RINE BUCKNELL--10. Shaping Modern English Fiction: The Forms of the Content and the Contents of the Form 149--VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM--11. The Politics of Narrative in the Post-war Scottish Novel--LIAM MCILVANNEY--12. The Ruined Futures of British Science Fiction--PATRICK PARRINDER--13. P. D. James and the Distinguished Thing 234--MARTIN PRIESTMAN--14. The Novel Adapted for Television 258--ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD--15. Against Dryness 265--MARTIN AMIS--16. Commissioning and Editing Modern Fiction 270--DAN FRANKLIN--17. Before it Becomes Literature: How Fiction Reviewers Have Dealt with the English Novel 284--LINDSAY DUGUID. LC Subjects English fiction--20th century--History and criticism. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 823/.91409 Geographic area code e-uk---
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