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      Afterlives

      Philip Tew

      A fictional account of a university professor's struggle to write a novel aged sixty. In his struggle he remembers the many people he has known, lost to premature deaths.

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      Jim Crace

      Philip Tew

      Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and…

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      Jim Crace

      Philip Tew

      Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and…

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      The 2010s

      This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the…

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      Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire

      In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of…

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      Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond

      Since the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied. Taking criticism of…

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      Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond

      Since the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied. Taking criticism of…

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      Zadie Smith

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      An introduction to the work of Zadie Smith, placing her fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context, and exploring her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism. Including a…

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      The Contemporary British Novel: Second Edition

      Professor Philip Tew (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

      A guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity. Designed to address problems faced by students in…

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      The Contemporary British Novel: Second Edition

      Professor Philip Tew (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

      A guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity. Designed to address problems faced by students in…

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      The Modernism Handbook

      Gives an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British Modernism as a literary movement. This resource offers literature students with information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through…

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      British Fiction Today

      Provides students and readers with an introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. This book offers comprehensive coverage of a…

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      British Fiction Today

      Provides students and readers with an introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. This book offers comprehensive coverage of a…

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      The Modernism Handbook

      Gives a comprehensive introduction to British Modernism as a literary movement. Suitable for literature students, this title includes: introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and…

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      New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition

      Offers a historically wide-ranging account of the Bucolic tradition, tracing the formal diversity of pastoral writing. This volume contextualizes a wide range of exemplary practitioners, genres, and movements.

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      London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City Beyond the City

      Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London…

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      Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists

      Why do writers write? How do they react to criticism of their work? What inspires them and how do they work? Does fiction have any political, ethical or spiritual significance…

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      Writers Talk: Conversations with Contemporary British Novelists

      Presents a collection of interviews with contemporary British novelists that offers an insight into the authors’ views on contemporary fiction; their influences and themes; readers and critics; and, why they…

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      Beckett and Death

      Death is indisputably central to Beckett’s writing and reception. This collection of research considers a number of Beckett’s poems, novels, plays and short stories through considerations of mortality and death…

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      The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction?

      During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded…

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      Beckett and Death

      A collection of research by international scholars on Beckett, as well as younger academics, analysing a number of Beckett’s poems, plays and short stories through consideration of mortality and death…

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      The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction?

      During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded…

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      London in Contemporary British Fiction: The City Beyond the City

      Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London…

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      Contemporary British Fiction

      A comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments in contemporary fiction and engages with key themes such as cultural identity, gender…

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      Contemporary British Fiction

      * The first comprehensive introductory guide to contemporary British fiction from 1979 to the present. * Provides accessible chapters on a broad range of leading British writers, including Salman Rushdie…

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      Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives

      The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing…

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      Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives

      The combined effect of the welfare state and medical advances means that more people now live longer lives than ever before in history. As a consequence, the experience of ageing…

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      The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction?

      Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture…

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      The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

      “How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture…

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      The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

      “How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners’ strikes and Winter of…

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      The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction?

      Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners’ strikes and Winter of…

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      The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction?

      The 1960s were the swinging decade : a newly energised…

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      The City of Dreadful Night

      James Thomson, gen (University of Sussex)

      The City of Dreadful Night from James Thomson. Scottish Victorian-era poet (1834-1882).

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      The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction?

      From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the…

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      Decades of Contemporary British Fiction: The 1970s to the 2000s

      Moving beyond a survey approach, this collection explores British fiction’s place among the cultural shifts and headline events of four distinctive decades. From the collapse of communism, through the rise…

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      The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

      How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction?

      From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the…

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