Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvi
Acknowledgments xx
PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945–2000 1
1 The Literary Response to the Second World War 3Damon Marcel DeCoste
2 The ‘‘Angry’’ Decade and After 21Dale Salwak
3 English Dystopian Satire in Context 32M. Keith Booker
4 The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf 45Roberta Rubenstein
5 Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory 65Patricia Waugh
6 The Novel and the End of Empire 83Reed Way Dasenbrock
7 Postcolonial Novels and Theories 96Feroza Jussawalla
8 Fictions of Belonging: National Identity and the Novel in Ireland and Scotland 112Gerard Carruthers
9 Black British Interventions 128John Skinner
10 The Recuperation of History in British and Irish Fiction 144Margaret Scanlan
11 The Literary Prize Phenomenon in Context 160James F. English
12 Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry in Britain and Ireland 177Claire Squires
13 The Novel and the Rise of Film and Video: Adaptation and British Cinema 194Brian McFarlane
14 The English Heritage Industry and Other Trends in the Novel at the Millennium 210Peter Childs
PART II Reading Individual Texts and Authors 225
15 Samuel Beckett’s Watt 227S. E. Gontarski and Chris Ackerley
16 George Orwell’s Dystopias: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four 241Erika Gottlieb
17 Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Other Late Novels 254Bernard Schweizer
18 Modernism’s Swansong: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano 266Patrick A. McCarthy
19 The Heart of the Matter and the Later Novels of Graham Greene 278Cedric Watts
20 William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Other Early Novels 289Kevin McCarron
21 Amis, Father and Son 302Merritt Moseley
22 Dame Iris Murdoch 314Margaret Moan Rowe
23 Academic Satire: The Campus Novel in Context 326Kenneth Womack
24 Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet 340Julius Rowan Raper
25 The Oxford Fantasists: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien 354Peter J. Schakel
26 Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 367Bryan Cheyette
27 Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook 376Judith Kegan Gardiner
28 Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 388John J. Su
29 John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman 398James Acheson
30 Angela Carter 409Nicola Pitchford
31 Margaret Drabble 421Margaret Moan Rowe
32 V. S. Naipaul 432Timothy Weiss
33 Salman Rushdie 444Nico Israel
34 The Irish Novel after Joyce 457Donna Potts
35 Anita Brookner 469Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
36 Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot 481Merritt Moseley
37 Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day 493Cynthia F. Wong
38 Ian McEwan 504Rebecca L. Walkowitz
39 Graham Swift 515Donald P. Kaczvinsky
40 The Scottish New Wave 526David Goldie
41 A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance 538Lynn Wells
42 Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy 550Anne Whitehead
Index 561
