UID:
almafu_9959328401102883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 281 pages)
ISBN:
9780470757673
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0470757671
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140515215X
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9781405152150
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9781405120005
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1405120002
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9781405120012
,
1405120010
,
9781405164979
,
1405164972
Series Statement:
Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture
Content:
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era.Comprises original essays from major scholars.Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author.The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation.
Note:
Literary fiction and the book trade / Richard Todd -- Literary authorship and celebrity culture / James F. English and John Frow -- Fiction and the film industry / Andrew Higson -- Tropicalizing london : British fiction and the discipline of postcolonialism / Nico Israel -- New ethnicities, the novel, and the burdens of representation / James Procter -- Devolving the Scottish novel / Cairns Craig -- Northern Irish fiction / John Brannigan -- The historical turn in British fiction / Suzanne Keene -- The woman writer and the continuities of feminism / Patricia Waugh -- Queer fiction / Robert L. Caserio -- The demise of class fiction / Dominick Head -- What the porter saw : on the academic novel / Bruce Robbins.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Concise companion to contemporary British fiction. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ISBN 9781405120005
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405120002
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470757673
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470757673
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470757673
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470757673
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