British Literature in Transition, 1980-2000 : Accelerated Times (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I. Transitions: 1. The ends of postmodernism Peter Boxall; 2. Historical fiction and political regeneration Dougal McNeill; 3. Strategies of survival in experimental poetry Luke Roberts; 4. Dramatic evolutions/bodily violations Nadine Holdsworth; 5. No such thing as society: the novel under neoliberalism Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene; Part II. Nation: 6. Black British writing: from gulags to ships Henghameh Saroukhani; 7. Working-class writing and the decline of class consciousness Nick Bentley; 8. Northern radical theatre and community performance Phil O'Brien; 9. 'Pit closure as art': poetry from the North of England James Underwood; 10. The road to Tollund: Northern Ireland's literature of transformation Richard Kirkland; 11. Entangled (k)nots: reconceptualizing the nation in Scottish devolution writing Carla Sassi; Part III. Society: 12. Inter-feminism/s: women writing back to the future Diana Wallace; 13. The rise of ladlit and chicklit Imelda Whelehan; 14. 'A gay story, a history': gay male liberation and queer rumination Allan Johnson; 15. 'Searching for something': the post-secular faiths of British fiction Andrew Tate; 16. Dystopia and euphoria: time-space compression and the city Alexander Beaumont; Part IV. Acceleration: 17. Coded networks: literature and the information technology revolution Anna McFarlane; 18. Nature's history: environmentalism and the British nature novel John Parham; 19. Like any other commodity? Literary prize culture, commercialisation, and the rise of a new reading public Caroline Edwards; 20. Making sense of the world: literature and globalisation Philip Leonard.