On Modern British Fiction by Zachary Leader
A landmark collection of newly commissioned essays on British fiction of the last fifty years by the very best contemporary novelists, critics, and academics, including contributions from Martin Amis, P. N. Furbank, Christopher Hitchens, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Patrick Parrinder, Elaine Showalter, James Wood, and Michael Wood. Among the topics discussed are the 'Englishness' of English comic fiction, its political conservatism, fiction and exile, Scottish fiction, the comissioning and editing of modern fiction, reviewing, the adaptation of fiction to television, genre fiction ('Ladlit', science fiction, crime fiction), and fictional form. There are also original essays on individual authors, including Christopher Isherwood, Angus Wilson, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, V. S. Pritchett, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. A fascinating collection for anyone seriously interested in modern British fiction.
Anyone at all interested in fiction (or indeed in what it is to be 'modern' or 'British') will find at least three or four of these essays worth the price of the bookCaroline Moore, The Spectator
ZACHARY LEADER is professor of English literature at the Uni-versity of Roehampton in London. Although born and raised in the United States, he has lived in Britain for more than forty years and has dual British and American citizenship. In addi-tion to teaching at Roehampton, he has held visiting profes-sorships at Caltech and the University of Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern University; Trinity College, Cam-bridge; and Harvard University; and is the author of Reading Blake's Songs; Writer's Block; Revision and Romantic Authorship; The Life of Kingsley Amis, a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography; and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964. He has edited Romantic Period Writings, 1798-1832: An Anthology (with Ian Haywood); The Letters of Kingsley Amis; On Modern British Fiction; Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works (with Michael O'Neill); The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries; and On Life-Writing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199249336 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199249334 |
| Title | On Modern British Fiction |
| Author | Zachary Leader |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2003-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
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