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British Fiction After Modernism

The Novel at Mid-Century

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Marina MacKay

    1. Washington University, St Louis, USA

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  2. Lyndsey Stonebridge

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: British Fiction After Modernism

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge, Marina MacKay
    Pages 1-16

  3. Rendering Justice to the Visible World: History, Politics and National Identity in the Novels of Graham Greene

    • Andrzej Gasiorek
    Pages 17-32

  4. The Case for Storm Jameson

    • Elizabeth Maslen
    Pages 33-41

  5. The Nooks and Crannies of her Being: Howard Spring’s Shabby Tiger and Northern Camp

    • Paul Magrs
    Pages 42-49

  6. A Plausible Magic: the Novels of Henry Green

    • James Wood
    Pages 50-58

  7. Varieties of Modernism, Varieties of Incomprehension: Patrick Hamilton and Elizabeth Bowen

    • John Mepham
    Pages 59-76

  8. James Hanley and the Colours of War

    • Gerard Barrett
    Pages 77-87

  9. The Girl on a Swing: Childhood and Writing in the 1940s

    • N. H. Reeve
    Pages 88-98

  10. Ivy Compton-Burnett and Risibility

    • Sara Crangle
    Pages 99-120

  11. Angus Wilson: No Laughing Matter and No Laughing Matter

    • Steven Jacobi
    Pages 121-130

  12. Reconsidering Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis and the Condition of England

    • Greg Londe
    Pages 131-144

  13. Olivia Manning and her Masculine Outfit

    • Jeremy Treglown
    Pages 145-156

  14. The Cold War Way of Death: Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori

    • Rod Mengham
    Pages 157-165

  15. The Greater Tragedy Imposed on the Small: Art, Anachrony and the Perils of Bohemia in Rebecca West’s The Fountain Overflows

    • Victor Sage
    Pages 166-183

  16. From Psychology to Ontology: William Golding’s Later Fiction

    • Kevin McCarron
    Pages 184-202

  17. The British Novel in 1960

    • Bernard Bergonzi
    Pages 203-211

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 212-221
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About this book

This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.

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'[MacKay and Stonebridge's] brilliant understanding of the conditions of the novel after modernism has allowed them to revive this 'distant dream'. [...] This collection [...] offers a new vision of late modernity. It effectively explains the 'filmic narrative,' the montage and pastiche techniques.' - The European English Messenger

Editors and Affiliations

  • Washington University, St Louis, USA

    Marina MacKay

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Lyndsey Stonebridge

About the editors

GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK BERNARD BERGONZI Emeritus Professor of English at Warwick University, UK SARA CRANGLE Research fellow at Queen's College, University of Cambridge, UK ANDRZEJ GASIOREK Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK STEVEN JACOBI Full-time writer GREG LONDE PhD student at Princeton University, USA MARINA MACKAY Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St Louis, USA PAUL MAGRS Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK KEVIN MCCARRON Reader in American Literature at Roehampton University, London, UK ELIZABETH MASLEN Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK ROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN MEPHAM Recently retired from teaching philosophy and English literature at Kingston University, UK NEIL REEVE Teaches at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK VICTOR SAGE Professor of Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of East Anglia, UK JEREMY TREGLOWN Professor of English at Warwick University, UK and the biographer of V.S. Pritchett JAMES WOOD Teaches at Harvard University, USA

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