Contemporary Novelists - Childs, Peter
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Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent writers, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. Focussing on their most-studied writings, Childs develops new readings of these authors' key novels, while the introduction explains the dominant concerns of British fiction from 1970-2003, the period's historical context, and the 'state of fiction' at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Novel Today
Martin Amis: Lucre, Love and Literature
Pat Barker: In the Shadow of Monstrosities…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent writers, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. Focussing on their most-studied writings, Childs develops new readings of these authors' key novels, while the introduction explains the dominant concerns of British fiction from 1970-2003, the period's historical context, and the 'state of fiction' at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Novel Today
Martin Amis: Lucre, Love and Literature
Pat Barker: In the Shadow of Monstrosities
Julian Barnes: 'A Mixture of Genres'
Angela Carter: The Demythologizing Business
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remain in Dreams
Hanif Kureishi: In Black and White
Ian McEwan: The Child in Us All
Salman Rushdie: A Long Geographical Perspective
Zadie Smith: Searching for the Inescapable
Graham Smith: Past Present
Irvine Welsh: Sex and Drugs and Violence
Jeanette Winterson: Boundaries and Desire
Conclusion
Index
Autorenporträt
PETER CHILDS is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is the author of a number of student texts in twentieth-century literature and culture including 'The Twentieth Century in Poetry' (Routledge, 1998),' Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture' (Routledge, 1999),' Reading Fiction: Opening the Text' (Palgrave, 2001) and 'British Cultural Identities, 2e' (Routledge, 2002, with Mike Storry).