(Ebook) British Fiction of the 1990s by Nick Bentley ISBN 9780415342568, 9780203481677, 9780415342575, 0415342562, 0415342570

(Ebook) British Fiction of the 1990s by Nick Bentley ISBN 9780415342568, 9780203481677, 9780415342575, 0415342562, 0415342570

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. Content: Introduction : mapping the millennium : themes and trends in contemporary British fiction / Nick Bentley -- From excess to the new world order / Fred Botting -- 'Refugees from time' : history, death and the flight from reality in contemporary writing / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Science and fiction in the 1990s / Patricia Waugh -- British science fiction in the 1990s : politics and genre / Roger Luckhurst -- The McReal thing : personal/national identity in Julian Barnes's England, England / Sarah Henstra -- Cyberspace and the body : Jeanette Winterson's The.powerbook / Sonya Andermahr -- 'Fascinating violation' : Ian McEwan's children / Peter Childs -- 'Tongues of bone' : A.L. Kennedy and the problems of articulation / Helen Stoddart -- Mr Wroe's virgins : the 'other Victorians' and recent fiction / B.E. Maidment -- Pat Barker's vanishing boundaries / Lynda Prescott -- Singular events : the 'as if' of Beryl Bainbridge's Every man for himself / Fiona Becket -- Iain Sinclair's millennial fiction : the example of Slow chocolate autopsy / Julian Wolfreys -- Hedgemony? : suburban space in The Buddha of suburbia / Susan Brook -- Iain Sinclair : the psychotic geographer treads the border-lines / Peter Brooker. Abstract: Presenting a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared in British fiction during the 1990s, this book brings together leading academics in the field.