The British and Irish Novel Since 1960

1. Front Matter

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2. Muriel Spark’s Grammars of Assent

   • Judy Little

   Pages 1-16

3. Rough Magic and Moral Toughness: Iris Murdoch’s Fictional Universe

   • John Fletcher

   Pages 17-31

4. Doris Lessing’s Beautiful Impossible Blueprints

   • Jocelyn Harris

   Pages 32-47

5. The Expatriate Experience: the Novels of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Paul Scott

   • Yasmine Gooneratne

   Pages 48-61

6. John Fowles and the Fiction of Freedom

   • Lance St John Butler

   Pages 62-77

7. The Small Worlds of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge

   • James Acheson

   Pages 78-92

8. Contemporary Irish Women Novelists

   • Janet Egleson Dunleavy, Rachael Lynch

   Pages 93-108

9. The Historical Imagination in William Golding’s Later Fiction

   • James Gindin

   Pages 109-125

10. Patchwork and Patterns: the Condition of England in Margaret Drabble’s Later Novels

    • Gail Cunningham

    Pages 126-141

11. Essential Imaginings: the Novels of Angela Carter and Russell Hoban

    • David Punter

    Pages 142-158

12. Redeeming the Time: the Novels of John McGahern and John Banville

    • Terence Brown

    Pages 159-173

13. ‘Unconfessed Confessions’: the Narrators of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes

    • David Leon Higdon

    Pages 174-191

14. The New Internationalism: Shiva Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro

    • Bruce King

    Pages 192-211

15. Back Matter

    Pages 212-217

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The essays in this collection survey the work of some of the most important British and Irish novelists of today. They not only consider afresh the work of novelists who established their reputations before 1960, such as Doris Lessing and William Golding; they also discuss the work of more recent novelists, among them Kazuo Ishiguro, Angela Carter and Graham Swift. The contributors are drawn from various parts of the English-speaking world, and provide a variety of original perspectives on the novelists concerned.

• Bertrand Russell
• England
• English
• essay
• experience
• fiction
• freedom
• grammar
• imagination
• knowledge
• liberty
• novel
• women

• University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  James Acheson

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