A companion to the British and Irish novel 1945-2000 / edited by Brian W. Shaffer.

• Superior document: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Shaffer, Brian W., 1960-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
• Physical Description: xix, 583 p.

Table of Contents

The literary response to the Second World War / Damon Marcel Decoste -- The 'Angry' Decade and after / Dale Salwak -- English dystopian satire in context / M. Keith Booker -- The feminist novel in the wake of Virginia Woolf / Roberta Rubenstein -- Postmodern fiction and the rise of critical theory / Patricia Waugh -- The novel and the end of empire / Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Postcolonial novels and theories / Feroza Jussawalla -- Fictions of belonging : national identity and the novel in Ireland and Scotland / Gerard Carruthers -- Black-British interventions / John Skinner -- The recuperation of history in British and Irish fiction / Margaret Scanlan -- The literary prize phenomenon in context / James F. English -- Novelistic production and the publishing industry in Britain and Ireland / Claire Squires -- The novel and the rise of film and video : adaptation and British cinema / Brian McFarlane -- The English heritage industry and other trends in the novel at the millennium / Peter Childs -- Samuel Beckett's Watt / S. E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley -- George Orwell's Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four / Erika Gottlieb -- Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead revisited and other late novels / Bernard Schweizer -- Modernism's swansong : Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano / Patrick A. McCarthy -- Graham Greene's Heart of the matter and other late novels / Cedric Watts -- William Golding's Lord of the flies and other early novels / Kevin McCarron -- Amis, father and son / Merritt Moseley -- Iris Murdoch / Margaret Moan Rowe -- Academic satire : the campus novel in context / Kenneth Womack -- Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet / Julius Rowan Raper -- The Oxford fantasists : C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. tolkien / Peter J. Schakel -- Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Bryan Cheyette -- Doris Lessing's The golden notebook / Judith Kegan Gardiner -- Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / John J. Su -- John Fowles's The French lieutenant's woman / James Acheson -- Angela Carter / Nicola Pitchford -- Margaret Drabble / Margaret Moan Rowe -- V.S. Naipaul / Timothy Weiss -- Salman Rushdie / Nico Israel -- The irish novel after joyce / Donna Potts -- Anita brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm -- Julian Barnes's Flaubert's parrot / Merritt Moseley -- Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day / Cynthia F. Wong -- Ian McEwan / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Graham Swift / Donald P. Kaczvinsky -- The Scottish new wave / David Goldie -- A.S. Byatt's Possession : a romance / Lynn Wells -- Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy / Anne Whitehead.