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Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945-2000 1. The Literary Response to the Second World War Damon Marcel Decoste 2. The 'Angry' Decade and After Dale Salwak 3. English Dystopian Satire in Context M. Keith Booker 4. The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf Roberta Rubenstein 5. Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory Patricia Waugh 6. The Novel and the End of Empire Reed Way Dasenbrock 7. Postcolonial Novels and Theories Feroza Jussawalla 8. Fictions of Belonging: National Identity, Literary Culture, and the Novel in Ireland and Scotland Gerard Carruthers 9. Black-British Interventions John Skinner 10. The Recuperation of History in British and Irish Fiction Margaret Scanlan 11. The Literary Prize Phenomenon in Context James F. English 12. Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry in Britain and Ireland Claire Squires 13. The Novel and the Rise of Film and Video: Adaptation and British Cinema Brian McFarlane 14. The English Heritage Industry and Other Trends in the Novel at the Millennium Peter Childs PART II Reading Individual Texts and Authors 15. Samuel Beckett's Watt S. E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley 16. George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four Erika Gottlieb 17. Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Other Late Novels Bernard Schweizer 18. Modernism's Swansong: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano Patrick A. McCarthy 19. Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter and Other Late Novels Cedric Watts 20. William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Other Early Novels Kevin McCarron 21. Amis, Father and Son Merritt Moseley 22. Iris Murdoch Margaret Moan Rowe 23. Academic Satire: the Campus Novel in Context Kenneth Womack 24. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet Julius Rowan Raper 25. The Oxford Fantasists: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien Peter J. Schakel 26. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Bryan Cheyette 27. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook Judith Kegan Gardiner 28. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea John J. Su 29. John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman James Acheson 30. Angela Carter Nicola Pitchford 31. Margaret Drabble Margaret Moan Rowe 32. V. S. Naipaul Timothy Weiss 33. Salman Rushdie Nico Israel 34. The Irish Novel after Joyce Donna Potts 35. Anita Brookner Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 36. Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot Merritt Moseley 37. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day Cynthia F. Wong 38. Ian McEwan Rebecca L. Walkowitz 39. Graham Swift Donald P. Kaczvinsky 40. The Scottish New Wave David Goldie 41. A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance Lynn Wells 42. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy Anne Whitehead Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English fiction 20th century History and criticism Handbooks, manuals, etc, English fiction Irish authors History and criticism Handbooks, manuals, etc, Ireland Intellectual life 20th century Handbooks, manuals, etc, Ireland In literature Handbooks, manuals, etc