British Fiction Of The 1990s Annotated Edition Nick Bentley by Nick Bentley 9780415342568, 9780203481677, 9780415342575, 0415342562, 0415342570, 0203481674 instant download after payment.

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.