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The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared over the decade, bringing together leading academics in the field. British Fiction of the 1990s: traces the concerns that emerged as central to 1990s fiction, in sections on millennial anxieties, identity politics, the relationship between the contemporary and the historical, and representations of contemporary space offers distinctive new readings of the most important novelists of the period, including Martin Amis, Beryl Bainbridge, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Iain Sinclair, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson shows how British fiction engages with major cultural debates of the time, such as the concern with representing various identities and cultural groups, or theories of 'the end of history' discusses 1990s fiction in relation to broader literary and critical theories, including postmodernism, post-feminism and postcolonialism. Together the essays highlight the ways in which the writing of the 1990s represents a development of the themes and styles of the post-war novel generally, yet displays a range of characteristics distinct to the decade.

Table Of Contents:
Notes on contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: mapping the millennium: themes and trends in contemporary British fiction 1(18)

Nick Bentley

PART I Millennial anxieties 19(74)

From excess to the new world order 21(21)

Fred Botting

`Refugees from time': history, death and the flight from reality in contemporary writing 42(15)

Andrzej Gasiorek

Science and fiction in the 1990s 57(21)

Patricia Waugh

British science fiction in the 1990s: politics and genre 78(15)

Roger Luckhurst

PART II Identity at the fin de siecle 93(58)

The McReal thing: personal/national identity in Julian Barnes's England, England 95(13)

Sarah Henstra

Cyberspace and the body: Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook 108(15)

Sonya Andermahr

`Fascinating violation': Ian McEwan's children 123(12)

Peter Childs

`Tongues of bone': A. L. Kennedy and the problems of articulation 135(16)

Helen Stoddart

PART III Historical fictions 151(42)

Mr Wroe's Virgins: the `other Victorians' and recent fiction 153(14)

B. E. Maidment

Pat Barker's vanishing boundaries 167(12)

Lynda Prescott

Singular events: the `as if' of Beryl Bainbridge's Every Man for Himself 179(14)

Fiona Becket

PART IV Narrative geographies 193(45)

Iain Sinclair's millennial fiction: the example of Slow Chocolate Autopsy 195(14)

Julian Wolfreys

Hedgemony? Suburban space in The Buddha of Suburbia 209(17)

Susan Brook

Iain Sinclair: the psychotic geographer treads the border-lines 226(12)

Peter Brooker
Index 238

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