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On Modern British Fiction Zachary Leader

On Modern British Fiction par Zachary Leader

On Modern British Fiction Zachary Leader

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Résumé

This is a collection of essays on British fiction since the 1950s by 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 and James Wood.

On Modern British Fiction Résumé

On Modern British Fiction 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.

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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 book. Caroline Moore, The Spectator

À propos de Zachary Leader


Zachary Leader is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton Institute, London. He is the editor of The Letters of Kingsley Amis.

Sommaire

1: James Wood: V.S. Pritchett and English Comedy; 2: P.N. Furbank: No Laughing Matter: A Word on Angus Wilson; 3: Ian McEwan: Mother Tongue - A Memoir; 4: Christopher Hitchens: Between Waugh and Wodehouse: Comedy and Conservatism; 5: Elaine Showalter: Ladlit; 6: Michael Wood: Enigmas and Homelands; 7: Hilary Mantel: No Passes or Documents Are Needed: The Writer at Home in Europe; 8: Wendy Lesser: Penelope; 9: Katherine Bucknell: Why Christopher Isherwood Stopped Writing Fiction; 10: Valentine Cunningham: Shaping Modern English Fiction: The Forms of the Content and the Contents of Form; 11: Liam McIlvanney: The Politics of Narrative in the Post-war Scottish Novel; 12: Patrick Parrinder: The Ruined Futures of British Science Fiction; 13: Martin Priestman: P.D. James and the Distinguished Thing; 14: Elizabeth Jane Howard: The Novel Adapted for Television; 15: Martin Amis: Against Dryness; 16: Dan Franklin: Commissioning and Editing Modern Fiction; 17: Lindsay Duguid: Before it Becomes Literature: How Fiction Reviewers Have Dealt with the English Novel.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR002873401
9780199249336
0199249334
On Modern British Fiction Zachary Leader
Zachary Leader
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Oxford University Press
2003-09-04
328
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