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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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

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Introductionf fiction writing that has come to dominate the two decades since 1984. The eleven novels on which this book focuses have been selected both for their intrinsic importance and to form part of an argument concerning the representation of history and identity in English fiction. The argument has been

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Martin Amis: , (1991) 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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A. S. Byatt: , (1992)in 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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Ian McEwan: , (2001)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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Hanif Kureishi: , (1990) in the 1990s. But, as Bruce King suggests, Kureishi’s “is a different subject matter from that of Naipaul and Rushdie,” being “partly the difference between being an immigrant and being born in a country” (187). Yet all three novelists are interested in the metamorphosis that overtakes characters w

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