Titlebook: English Fiction Since 1984; Narrating a Nation Brian Finney Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006 f

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288522 mythologized as a golden age, a time of innocence irretrievably lost. The exaggerated sense of a complete rupture with previous history can be equally evidenced in D. H. Lawrence’s famous declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world ended” (. 240), and Martin Amis’s conviction that with the 1941 Germ

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113077in 1964. At first overshadowed by her sister Margaret Drabble, a more popular novelist, she didn’t receive wide recognition until the publication of . in 1990. By then she had produced four novels, a collection of short stories, and two works of academic criticism. Since the publication of . she has

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nd. In his first novel, . (.) the only reference to public affairs at the time comes in a casual reference to some overflowing dustbins (caused by the dustmen’s strike of 1975): “We thought there might have been a strike but we had heard nothing” (135). Otherwise the novel confines itself to an isol

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524408guro has written to date show a remarkably consistent preoccupation with the same themes. All of them focus on adult narrators who are fixated with the past, especially with the trauma of leaving behind their protected childhood. In his latest novel to date, . (2005) Kath, the protagonist (a clone b

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48377-9he majority of it feminist. This is hardly surprising considering that the novel features as its principal protagonist a woman with wings ushering in the twentieth century. “Fevvers,” we are told in the opening chapter, “has all the . of a new era about to take off” (11). Fevvers’s ability to fly pr

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0985-5ry novelist considered in this book can be said to be in quest of one form of identity or another—an identity already constructed in part by the past and its recreation in the present, an identity that attaches itself to notions of nationhood, ethnicity or culture, or—as in this section—an identity

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ar period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-national capitalism by giving unusual fictional shape to the impact of global events and culture.978-1-349-28413-9978-0-230-20707-3