A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000 [Hardcover]

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• Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie
  
• Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’
  
• Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel
  
• Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon
  
• Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xvi

Acknowledgments xx

PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945–2000 1

1 The Literary Response to the Second World War 3
Damon Marcel DeCoste

2 The ‘‘Angry’’ Decade and After 21
Dale Salwak

3 English Dystopian Satire in Context 32
M. Keith Booker

4 The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf 45
Roberta Rubenstein

5 Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory 65
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