The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.>

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• Authors: Dr Nick (Brunel University Hubble, Nick Hubble, Nick (Brunel University Hubble, Philip Tew, Leigh Wilson
• Assisted by: Dr Nick (Brunel University Hubble (Editor), Nick Hubble (Editor), Nick (Brunel University Hubble (Editor), Philip Tew (Editor), Philip (Brunel University Tew (Editor), Professor Philip (Brunel University Tew (Editor), Dr Leigh (University of Westminster Wilson (Editor), Leigh Wilson (Editor), Leigh (University of Westminster Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781350005419
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00541-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Decades; Decades Series; The Decades Series; Decades
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Literature: history and criticism