Contemporary Crisis Fictions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Emily Horton

   Pages 1-31

3. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre

   • Emily Horton

   Pages 32-54

4. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reappraisals of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift

   • Emily Horton

   Pages 55-106

5. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan

   • Emily Horton

   Pages 107-158

6. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro

   • Emily Horton

   Pages 159-216

7. Epilogue

   • Emily Horton

   Pages 217-234

8. Back Matter

   Pages 235-265

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This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project.

• Crisis
• Fiction
• Literature and ethics
• Contemporary Literature
• British novel
• culture
• fiction
• history of literature
• novel
• time
• British and Irish Literature

Emily Horton is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary British and American fiction, specialising in space and place; contemporary genre and popular fiction; trauma fiction; and cosmopolitan fictions. She is currently co-editing a volume with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson entitled 1980: A Decade in Contemporary Fiction, and another with Monica Germana on Ali Smith.

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