A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction

Abstract

Notes on Contributors. Introduction: British Fiction in a Global Frame (James F. English). The Increasing importance since the 1970s of transnational markets and circuits of exchange, and the consequent repositioning of British fiction in World literary space.. Part I: Institutions of Commerce. 1. Literary Fiction and the Book Trade (Richard Todd). 2. Literary Authorship and Celebrity Culture (James F. English and John Frow). 3. Fiction and the Film Industry (Andrew Higson). Part II: Elaborations of Empire. 4. Tropicalizing London: British Fiction and the Discipline of Postcolonialism (Nico Israel). 5. New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation (James Procter). 6. Devolving the Scottish Novel (Cairns Craig). 7. Northern Irish Fiction: Provisional and Pataphysicians (John Brannigan). Part III: Mutations of Form. 8. The Historical Turn in British Fiction (Suzanne Keen). 9. The Woman Writer and the Continuities of Feminism (Patricia Waugh). 10. Queer Fiction: the Ambiguous Emergence of a Genre (Robert L. Caserio). 11. The Demise of Class Fiction (Dominic Hedad). 12. What the Porter Saw: On the Academic Novel (Bruce Robbins). Index.

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