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Zusatztext The book is a wide-ranging and rigorously written scholarly work that will be of invaluable interest to students and academics working in the field of literary studies. Informationen zum Autor Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015), The 1950s (2018), The 1930s (2021), The 2010s (2024) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury. Leigh Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK. Vorwort A major critical reassessment of British fiction from the 2000s informed by the social climate and historical events of the decade. Zusammenfassung How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000 and 2010. This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the act of writing and reading. Through consideration of, among other things, the treatment of neuroscience, violence, the historical and youth subcultures in recent fiction, the essays in this collection explore the complex and still powerful relation between the novel and the world in which it is written, published and read. This major literary assessment of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of newer voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy, David Peace and Zadie Smith as well as those more established, such as Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Fiction of the 2000s: Political Contexts, Seeing the Contemporary, and the End(s) of Postmodernism Nick Bentley, Nick Hubble and Leigh Wilson 1 Literary History of the Decade: Fiction from the Borderlands Martyn Colebrook 2 Special Topic 1: Subcultural fictions: Youth subcultures in twenty-first century British fiction. Nick Bentley 3 Special Topic 2: Translating Neuroscience: Fictions of the Brain in the 2000s Laura Salisbury 4 Postcolonial and Diasporic Voices: Contemporary British Fiction in an Age of Transnational Terror Lucienne Loh 5 Historical Representations: Reality Effects: the historical novel and the crisis of fictionality in the first decade of the twenty-first century Leigh Wilson 6 Generic Discontinuities and Variations Daniel Weston 7 International Contexts 1: The American Reception of British Fiction in the 2000s Anne Marie Adams 8 International Contexts 2: From multicultural enthusiasm to the ‘failure of multiculturalism’: British multi-ethnic fiction in an international frame Ulrike Tancke Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index...
