A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction - ENGLISH F. JAMES
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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. The book focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era, and the resulting transformation of such key areas of literary practice as publishing, bookselling, book reviewing, and higher education. Although the volume's original contributions range across a variety of topics - from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel, and controversies over the celebrity author, to…mehr

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A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. The book focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era, and the resulting transformation of such key areas of literary practice as publishing, bookselling, book reviewing, and higher education. Although the volume's original contributions range across a variety of topics - from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel, and controversies over the celebrity author, to the changing relationship between literature and the cinema - each of the contributors attends carefully to the institutional and economic contexts of literary production, and to the contending forces that have shaped the emergent canon of contemporary British fiction. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction will enable students to read any work from the last quarter century of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where it fits within British cultural life.
Autorenporträt
James F. English is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (1994) and The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value (2005).
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"Blackwell's new Companion to contemporary British fictionis a delight to review. It delivers on its promises to beinnovative, highly readable, lively and topical, and it warrantswholehearted endorsement as an essenital addition to any librarythat is seriously developing resources for undergraduate and taughtpostgraduate study."
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"James English's companion contains a series of fresh, livelyand insightful readings of the key figures in post-war Britishfiction from Martin Amis to Zadie Smith. Its coverage of themultiple, changing contexts - from globalization and the 'newethnicities' to the rise of book groups and online retailing - inwhich that fiction is produced and consumed is generouslywide-ranging and satisfyingly informative. This is an authoritativeand approachable book." Michael Greaney, LancasterUniversity

"James English's A Concise Companion to ContemporaryBritish Fiction is a valuable addition to discussions of recentwriting. The essays collected here are wide-ranging, well-informed,and critically astute. This book will make a strong contribution toour understanding of the contemporary British novel."Andrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham