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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Volume One Preface
Richard Bradford Part One 1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
Richard Bradford 2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literature
Stephen Butler 3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing
James Ward 4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama
Kevin De Ornellas Part Two 5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies
Neil Murphy 6. Brian Friel
Graham Price 7. Alan Bennett
Joseph H. O'Mealy 8. Edward Bond
Peter Billingham 9. Seamus Heaney
Adam Hanna 10. Michael Moorcock
Mark Williams 11. Angela Carter
Anja Muller-Wood 12. Christina Reid
Michal Lachman 13. Bernard MacLaverty
Richard Russell
13a. Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community
Pilar Villar-Argáiz 14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville's fiction
Alisa Hemphill 15. Julian Barnes (born 1946)
Vanessa Guignery 16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman's Fiction
Johnny Rodger 17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre)
Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala 18. Marina Lewycka
Heather Fielding 19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014)
Keith Hopper 20. David Edgar
Sean Carney 21. Ian McEwan
Brian Diemert 22. Tom Paulin - Writer and Translator
Stephanie Schwerter 23. Graham Swift
Daniel Lea 24. Martin Amis
Andrew James 25. Peter Ackroyd
Jean-Michel Ganteau 26. Patrick McGrath
Sue Zlosnik 27. Medbh Mcguckian
Barbola Farago 28. Paul Muldoon
Alex Alonso 29. William Boyd: 'Fiction... so real you forget it is fiction'
Christine Berberich 30. 'Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories': the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel
Laura J Burkinshaw 31. Linton Kwesi Johnson
Emily Taylor Merriman 32. Hanif Kureishi
Laurenz Volkmann 33. Colm Tóibín
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan 34. Janice Galloway
Dorothy Mcmillan 35. Martin Crimp
Aleks Sierz 36. Adam Thorpe
Dominic Head 37. Benjamin Zephaniah
Graham MacPhee 38. Jeanette Winterson
Susana Onega 39. Jonathan Coe
Laurent Mellet 40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will Self
Kevin De Ornellas Volume Two Preface
Richard Bradford Part Two 41. Jackie Kay
Nerys Williams 42. Kathleen Jamie
Heather Yeung 43. Ali Smith
Monica Germanà 44. A.L. Kennedy
Monika Szuba 45. Monica Ali
Michael Perfect 46. Sarah Waters
Natasha Alden 47. David Greig
Clare Wallace 48. David Mitchell
Patrick O'Donnell 49. Emma Donoghue
Abigail Palko 50. Hari Kunzru
Peter Childs 51. Mark O'Rowe
David Clare 52. Conor McPherson
Eamonn Jordan 53. China Miéville
Eric Sandberg 54. Zadie Smith
Chris Holmes Part Three 55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry
David Wheatley 56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish Literature
Arianna Introna 57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present)
D.J. Howells 58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British Novel
Elsa Cavalié 59. LGBT and Fiction
Joseph Ronan 60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative 'Singularity'
Dr Grace Halden 61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the 'Invasion' Model of Interpretation
Hugo Frey 62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice's Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy Worlds
Katharine Kittredge 63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story.
Katherine Byrne 64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
Dr. George Legg 65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime Fiction
Stephen Butler 66. British Psychogeographical Fiction
Eva M. Pérez-Rodríguez 67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British Literature
Justine Goneaud 68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary Drama
Kevin De Ornellas 69. Verbatim Theatre
Cyrielle Garson 70. 'It had stopped being history and turned into experience': An Approach to the Historical Novel.
Rebecca Devine 71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-Persepective
Madelena Gonzalez 72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in Britain
Jenni Ramone 73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social Media
Millicent Weber
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Richard Bradford, is Research Professor at Ulster University and Director of the Ulster Literary Biography Research Centre. He has published more than thirty books, including eight well-reviewed biographies, most recently on Hemingway and Orwell. He is founder and general editor of the new Wiley-Blackwell biography series
The Life of the Author.
