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Zusatztext There are important attempts to rethink national identity, to rearticulate the relationship between history and the novel and to define the cultural work of the novel now. Critics of the contemporary, in particular, will find much here to ponder. Informationen zum Autor Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2006), Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum, 2009) and Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction (CUP, 2013). He has edited a number of collections, including Thinking Poetry and Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, and a recent Faber edition of Beckett's novel Malone Dies. He is also the editor of Textual Practice and 1001 Books. His most recent book, The Value of the Novel, is forthcoming with CUP in 2015. He is currently working on a book entitled The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life.Bryan Cheyette is Chair of Modern Literature at the University of Reading. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Muriel Spark: The Writer and Her Work (2000) and Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History (2014). He is the editor of six previous books, most notably Between 'Race' and Culture (1996), Modernity, Culture and 'the Jew' (1997), and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland (1998). He is currently working on a biography of Israel Zangwill and he has reviewed contemporary fiction for the TLS, The Independent and the Guardian. Klappentext Volume Seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction. Zusammenfassung Volume Seven of the Oxford History of the Novel in English offers the fullest and most nuanced account available of the last eight decades of British prose fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Life and Death of the Post-War Novel Part 1: 1940-1973: Key Figures and Contexts 1: Andrew Nash: The Material History of the Novel I: 1940-1973 2: Lara Feigel: Fiction during the Second World War 3: Robert Eaglestone: The Question of Evil: Neo-Christianity and the Novel 4: Nicola Wilson: Working Class Fictions 5: John McLeod: The Novel and the End of Empire 6: C.L. Innes: Migrant Writing 7: Liz Sage: Women's Fiction after the War 8: Zachary Leader: The Movement towards Englishness 9: Tyrus Miller: The Continuities of Late Modernism: Before and after Beckett 10: Philip Tew: Comedy, Class and Nation 11: Michael Cronin: In the Wake of Joyce: Irish Writing after 1939 12: Rod Mengham: Judging the Distance: Fiction with Europe in Mind Part 2: Genres/Subgenres 13: Laura Marcus: Cinematic and Televisual Fiction 14: John Brannigan: The Novel as History 15: Nick Bentley: The Novel Sequence 16: Adrian Hunter: Novel, Novella, Short Story 17: Martin Priestman: Spies, Detectives and Heroes: From the Cold War to the War on Terror 18: Peter Hunt: The Children's Novel 19: Emma Parker: Queers, Chaps, Chicks and Lads 20: Nadia Valman: Jewish Fictions 21: Liam Connell: The Regional and the Global 22: Sherryl Vint: Dystopian Science Fiction and the Return of the Gothic Part 3: 1973-Present: Key Figures and Contexts 23: Andrew Nash: The Material History of the Novel II 1973-Present 24: Paul Crosthwaite: Fiction and Trauma from the Second World War to 9/11 25: David James: Decentring Englishness 26: Mary Eagleton: The Feminist Novel 27: Peter Morey: Black British and British Asian Fiction 28: Matthew Hart: A Plurinational Literature? Nationalism in British and Northern Irish Fiction Since 1970 29: Scott Hames: The New Scottish Renaissan...
