British Fiction of the 1990s

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The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared over the decade, bringing together leading academics in the field. Content: Introduction : mapping the millennium : themes and trends in contemporary British fiction / Nick Bentley -- From excess to the new world order / Fred Botting -- 'Refugees from time' : history, death and the flight from reality in contemporary writing / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Science and fiction in the 1990s / Patricia Waugh -- British science fiction in the 1990s : politics and genre / Roger Luckhurst -- The McReal thing : personal/national identity in Julian Barnes's England, England / Sarah Henstra -- Cyberspace and the body : Jeanette Winterson's The.powerbook / Sonya Andermahr -- 'Fascinating violation' : Ian McEwan's children / Peter Childs -- 'Tongues of bone' : A.L. Kennedy and the problems of articulation / Helen Stoddart -- Mr Wroe's virgins : the 'other Victorians' and recent fiction / B.E. Maidment -- Pat Barker's vanishing boundaries / Lynda Prescott -- Singular events : the 'as if' of Beryl Bainbridge's Every man for himself / Fiona Becket -- Iain Sinclair's millennial fiction : the example of Slow chocolate autopsy / Julian Wolfreys -- Hedgemony? : suburban space in The Buddha of suburbia / Susan Brook -- Iain Sinclair : the psychotic geographer treads the border-lines / Peter Brooker. Abstract: Presenting a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared in British fiction during the 1990s, this book brings together leading academics in the field. Read more...