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Twenty-First Century Fiction

What Happens Now

  • Siân Adiseshiah
  • Rupert Hildyard
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: What Happens Now
    Siân Adiseshiah, Rupert Hildyard
    Pages 1-14
  3. ‘Such a Thing as Avant-Garde Has Ceased to Exist’: The Hidden Legacies of the British Experimental Novel
    Jennifer Hodgson
    Pages 15-33
  4. Tough Shit Erich Auerbach: Contingency and Estrangement in David Peace’s Occupied City and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
    Phil Redpath
    Pages 34-48
  5. When the Two Sevens Clash: David Peace’s Nineteen Seventy-Seven as ‘Occult History’
    Dean Lockwood
    Pages 49-65
  6. Remaindered Books: Glen Duncan’s Twenty-First Century Novels
    Alice Bennett
    Pages 66-80
  7. ‘The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross’: Stepping Across Lines in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown
    Daniel O’Gorman
    Pages 81-96
  8. ‘The Private Rooms and Public Haunts’: Theatricality and the City of London in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White
    Lin Pettersson
    Pages 97-114
  9. ‘This is my Opa. Do you remember him killing the Jews?’ Rachel Seiffert’s ‘Micha’ and the Transgenerational Haunting of a Silenced Past
    María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
    Pages 115-131
  10. A Voice without a Name: Gothic Homelessness in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me
    Emily Horton
    Pages 132-146
  11. Ghosts of Postmodernity: Spectral Epistemology and Haunting in Hilary Mantel’s Fludd and Beyond Black
    Wolfgang Funk
    Pages 147-161
  12. Intimations of Immortality: Sémiologies of Ageing and the Lineaments of Eternity in Contemporary Prose
    Lucy Perry
    Pages 162-182
  13. Crosshatching: Boundary Crossing in the Post-Millennial British Boom
    Jude Roberts
    Pages 183-196
  14. ‘You just know when the world is about to break apart’: Utopia, Dystopia and New Global Uncertainties in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army
    Iain Robinson
    Pages 197-211
  15. Finding the Right Kind of Attention: Dystopia and Transcendence in John Burnside’s Glister
    Florian Niedlich
    Pages 212-223
  16. Back Matter
    Pages 224-239
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About this book

Introduction

This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction.

Keywords

fiction novel Romanticism

Editors and affiliations

  • Siân Adiseshiah
    • 1
  • Rupert Hildyard
    • 2
  1. 1.University of LincolnUK
  2. 2.University of LincolnUK

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