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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000. A collection of essays on the novel in Britain over the last fifty years, including contributions by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantal, John Sutherland, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, and Elaine Showalter.
Full Description
A landmark collection of essays on fiction in Britain over the last fifty years, including original contributions by the very best contemporary novelists and critics, such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, and Elaine Showalter. Arranged thematically, pieces include developing a reception in America (Amis), how fiction reviewers have dealt with the English novel (Duguid), on commissioning and editing modern fiction (Franklin), the novel adapted for TV (Howard), modern historical fiction (Mantel), science fiction (Parrinder), crime writing (Priestman), 'Lad lit' after Lucky Jim (Showalter), and essays on Angus Wilson, Angela Carter, Iris Murdoch, Penelope Fitzgerald, V. S. Pritchett, Naipaul, and Rushdie. Edited by Zachary Leader, this is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in modern British fiction.
Contents
Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. V. S. Pritchett and English comedy; 2. No laughing matter: a word on Angus Wilson; 3. Mother Tongue -- a memoir; 4. Between Waugh and Wodehouse: comedy and Conservatism; 5. Ladlit; 6. Enigmas and homelands; 7. No passes or documents are needed: the writer at home in Europe; 8. Penelope; 9. Why Christopher Isherwood stopped writing fiction; 10. Shaping modern English fiction: the forming of contents and the contents of form; 11. The politics of narrative in the postwar Scottish novel; 12. The ruined futures of British science fiction; 13. P. D. James and the distinguished thing; 14. The novel adapted for television; 15. Against Dryness; 16. Commissioning and editing modern fiction; 17. Before it becomes literature: how fiction reviewers have dealt with the English novel; Index