The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000
Author(s): Dominic Head (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: March 25, 2002
Language: English
Print length: 316 pages
ISBN-10: 0521669669
ISBN-13: 9780521669665
Book Description
Dominic Head demonstrates how the novel yields a special insight into important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth-century. His study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. Placing novels in their social and historical context, it includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity, and multiculturalism. Accessible and wide-ranging, this is the most current introduction to the subject available.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Anyone with an interest in the contemporary novel, not just British fiction, will appreciate this outstanding survey and analysis … ranging from Angus Wilson to Zadie Smith, Head provides abundant evidence for his conclusion that ‘the novel … becomes an important focus for the society’s alternative, redemptive, and connective thought.’ This book should become a standard reference work for its subject.” Choice
Book Description
The most current, wide-ranging, and accessible introduction on the post-war novel in Britain available.
About the Author
Dominic Head is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Head of the School of English at the University of Central England. He is the author of The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992), Nadine Gordimer (Cambridge, 1994), J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge, 1997).
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