Contemporary novelists : British fiction since 1970 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Childs, Peter, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	20th century English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction.

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Summary:	Peter Childs offers accessible analyses of the work of twelve prominent writers, including Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing on their most-studied writings, Childs develops new readings of these authors' key novels, while the introduction explains the dominant concerns of British fiction from 1970-2003, the period's historical context, and the "state of fiction" at the beginning of the twenty-first century.<br>
Physical Description:	287 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1403911193 1403911207
Author Notes:	Peter Childs is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is the author of a number of student texts in twentieth-century literature and culture including The Twentieth Century in Poetry (Routledge, 1998), Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture (Routledge, 1999), Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (Palgrave, 2001) and British Cultural Identities, 2e (Routledge, 2002, with Mike Storry).

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