Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire

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In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of his major novels, including his most recent book Number 11, Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire includes chapters by leading and emerging scholars of contemporary British writing. The book features a preface by Coe himself and covers the ways in which his work grapples with such themes as class politics, popular music, sex, gender and the media. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Works cited Notes Works cited Chapter 1 Jonathan Coe: The Early Novels The Coe anti-hero A continuous dialogue with form Tone Note Works cited Chapter 2 Jonathan Coe’s Stories of Sadness What little fun Lost opportunities Rich tea Monochrome Works cited Chapter 3 Sexing Britannia: Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up! or the Re/de-Sexualization of Thatcherite Britain Margaret Thatcher and gender fluidity Margaret Thatcher: The woman, the sexuality What a Carve Up! and the glorification of the sterile Notes Works cited Chapter 4 A Comedy of Horrors: Thatcherism in What a Carve Up! Works cited Chapter 5 ‘These are my books’: What a Carve Up! and Video Aesthetics Notes Works cited Chapter 6 What Became of the People We Used to Be?: The House of Sleep (1997) and the 1970s Sitcom, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–5) Works cited Chapter 7 From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club Works cited Chapter 8 Jonathan Coe’s The Closed Circle and a Satiric Mirror Works cited Chapter 9 A Terrible Precariousness: Financialization of Society and the Precariat in Jonathan Coe’s The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Financialization and the financial crisis Precarious life Conclusion Works cited Chapter 10 Jonathan Coe’s Rewriting of Popular Genres in Expo 58 Note Works cited Chapter 11 Gothic Horror and Haunting Processes in Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 Notes Works cited Films cited Chapter 12 Neo-Gothic Minutiae and Mundanity in Jonathan Coe’s Satire, Number 11 Works cited Index