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English Fiction Since 1984

Narrating a Nation

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Brian Finney

    1. California State University, Long Beach, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 1-13

  3. History, Modernity and Metafiction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-20
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    2. Peter Ackroyd: Chatterton (1987)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 21-33

    3. Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (1989)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 34-52

    4. Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense (1991)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 53-67

    5. A. S. Byatt: Angels and Insects (1992)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 68-86

    6. Ian McEwan: Atonement (2001)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 87-101

  4. National Cultures and Hybrid Narrative Modes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-108
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    2. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 109-123

    3. Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 124-138

    4. Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans (2000)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 139-154

  5. Narrative Constructions of Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-161
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    2. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus (1984)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 163-176

    3. Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body (1992)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 177-190

    4. Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996)

      • Brian Finney
      Pages 191-204

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 205-233
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About this book

This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-national capitalism by giving unusual fictional shape to the impact of global events and culture.

Authors and Affiliations

  • California State University, Long Beach, USA

    Brian Finney

About the author

BRIAN FINNEY is an Associate Professor in English at California State University, Long Beach, USA. He taught at London University from 1964-1987, and, since emigrating to the USA, at UCR, UCLA, and USC. He has published Since How It Is: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction (1972), Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography for which he awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1979, The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century (1985) and D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers: A Critical Study (1990).

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