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Book SynopsisNick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Keele University, UK. He is author of Contemporary British Fiction: A Readers Guide to Criticism (2018); Martin Amis: Writers and Their Work (2015); Contemporary British Fiction (2008); and Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (2007). He is editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (2005), and co-editor of two volumes in Bloomsbury's British Fiction: The Decades Series The 2000s (2015), and The 1950s (2019). In addition, he has published 40 journal articles and book chapters on postwar and contemporary literature.
Emily Horton is a lecturer in World Literatures in English at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary fiction in English, specializing in trauma and affect theory; genre and popular fiction; and fictional explorations of globalization and cosmopolitanism. Her first monograph, Contemporary Crisis Fictions, was published in 201
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A timely collection of outstanding and innovative scholarship, The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction firmly positions literature as an urgent intervention into the political and cultural crises of the present. It reminds us exactly why fiction remains such a vital and provocative force, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dynamic landscape of contemporary writing. * Sara Upstone, Professor of Contemporary Literature, Kingston University, UK *
Table of Contents
Contributors Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Fiction of the 2010s in the Context of a Country in Transition Emily Horton, Nick Hubble, Nick Bentley and Philip Tew 1. Fictions of the Break Up Nick Hubble 2. Fiction in the Age of Distraction: Reading and Attention in the 2010s Alice Bennett 3. Border Crossings: Diasporic British Fiction of the 2010s Emily Horton 4. ‘Defining it is a Struggle’: Working-Class Fiction in the 2010s Matti Ron 5. What’s to-day? Politics and Typography in Ali Smith’s Decade Tory Young 6. The ‘Teenie’ Novels of Jonathan Coe: Intertextuality, Satire, Parody, Farce and Irony Philip Tew 7. ‘The English Problem’: Reading the Body Politic in Post-Brexit Fictions Kristian Shaw 8. Inexhaustible Literature? Contemporary Experimental Approaches in Literature Mark P. Williams 9. Speculative Fiction of the 2010s Anna McFarlane 10. The Neo-mythological Novel: Re-writing the Epic in Contemporary British Fiction. Nick Bentley Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index
