The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (Paperback, Paperback)

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Decades Series
Release date:	October 2017
Editors:	Nick Hubble • Philip Tew • Leigh Wilson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	Paperback
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-00541-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-350-00541-X
Barcode:	9781350005419

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