Cambridge Companion to Ian Mcewan

Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan's fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.

List of contents

Chronology; Introduction Dominic Head; 1. 'Shock lit': the early fiction Eluned Summers-Bremner; 2. Moral dilemmas Lynn Wells; 3. Science and climate crisis Astrid Bracke; 4. The novel of ideas Michael Lemahieu; 5. Cold War fictions Richard Brown; 6. The construction of childhood Peter Childs; 7. The public and the private David Malcolm; 8. Masculinities Ben Knights; 9. The novellas Dominic Head; 10. Realist legacies Judith Seaboyer; 11. Limited modernism Thom Dancer; 12. Narrative artifice David James; Further reading.

About the author

Dominic Head is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School, 2007–10. His previous books are: The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992); Nadine Gordimer (Cambridge, 1994); J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge, 1997); The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 (Cambridge, 2002); Ian McEwan (2007); The State of the Novel (2008); The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge, 2009), and Modernity and the English Rural Novel (Cambridge, 2017). Also, as editor: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, third edition (Cambridge, 2006); and The Cambridge History of the English Short Story (Cambridge, 2016).

Summary

This volume offers a sense of McEwan's standing in the canon on international contemporary fiction, and enriches understanding of McEwan's work by presenting complementary perspectives on the most complex novels. It will be a key resource for students, graduates, and scholars studying and teaching Ian McEwan.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic (University of Nottingham) Head
• Assisted by: Dominic Head (Editor), Dominic (University of Nottingham) Head (Editor), Head Dominic (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781108480338
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48033-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 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, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides