Jonathan Coe Contemporary British Satire [Hardcover]

In novels such asWhat A Carve Up!andThe Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of his major novels, including his most recent bookNumber 11, Jonathan Coe:Contemporary British Satireincludes chapters by leading and emerging scholars of contemporary British writing. The book features a preface by Coe himself and covers the ways in which his work grapples with such themes as class politics, popular music, sex, gender and the media.

Notes on Contributors

Preface
Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)

A Critical Introduction: or, (Re)-contextualizing Jonathan Coe'sWhat a Carve Up!
Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)

1. Jonathan Coe: The Early Novels
Merritt Moseley

2. Sadness and Jonathan Coe's Fiction
Joseph Brooker (University of London, UK)

3. Sexing Britannia: Jonathan Coe'sWhat a Carve Up!or the Re/De-Sexualization of Thatcherite Britain
Raluca Iliou

4. A Comedy of Horrors: Thatcherism inWhat a Carve Up!
Emma Parker (University of Leicester, UK)

5. These are my books':What a Carve Up!and Video Aesthetics
James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK)

6. What Became of the People We Used to Be?:The House of Sleep(1997) and the 1970s Sitcom,Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?(1973-75)
Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK)

7. From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe'sThe Rotters Club
Nick Bentley (Keele University, UK)

8. Jonathan Coe'sThe Closed Circleand a Satiric Mirror
Sebastian Jenner

9. A Terrible Precariousness: financialisation of society and the precariat in Jonathan Coe'sThe Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Francesco di Bernardo