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Twenty-First Century Fiction

What Happens Now

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Editors:
  1. Siân Adiseshiah

    1. University of Lincoln, UK

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  2. Rupert Hildyard

    1. University of Lincoln, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: What Happens Now

    • Siân Adiseshiah, Rupert Hildyard
    Pages 1-14
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  3. ‘Such a Thing as Avant-Garde Has Ceased to Exist’: The Hidden Legacies of the British Experimental Novel

    • Jennifer Hodgson
    Pages 15-33
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  4. Tough Shit Erich Auerbach: Contingency and Estrangement in David Peace’s Occupied City and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

    • Phil Redpath
    Pages 34-48
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  5. When the Two Sevens Clash: David Peace’s Nineteen Seventy-Seven as ‘Occult History’

    • Dean Lockwood
    Pages 49-65
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  6. Remaindered Books: Glen Duncan’s Twenty-First Century Novels

    • Alice Bennett
    Pages 66-80
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  7. ‘The journey creates us. We become the frontiers we cross’: Stepping Across Lines in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown

    • Daniel O’Gorman
    Pages 81-96
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  8. ‘The Private Rooms and Public Haunts’: Theatricality and the City of London in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

    • Lin Pettersson
    Pages 97-114
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  9. ‘This is my Opa. Do you remember him killing the Jews?’ Rachel Seiffert’s ‘Micha’ and the Transgenerational Haunting of a Silenced Past

    • María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
    Pages 115-131
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  10. A Voice without a Name: Gothic Homelessness in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 132-146
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  11. Ghosts of Postmodernity: Spectral Epistemology and Haunting in Hilary Mantel’s Fludd and Beyond Black

    • Wolfgang Funk
    Pages 147-161
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  12. Intimations of Immortality: Sémiologies of Ageing and the Lineaments of Eternity in Contemporary Prose

    • Lucy Perry
    Pages 162-182
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  13. Crosshatching: Boundary Crossing in the Post-Millennial British Boom

    • Jude Roberts
    Pages 183-196
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  14. ‘You just know when the world is about to break apart’: Utopia, Dystopia and New Global Uncertainties in Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army

    • Iain Robinson
    Pages 197-211
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  15. Finding the Right Kind of Attention: Dystopia and Transcendence in John Burnside’s Glister

    • Florian Niedlich
    Pages 212-223
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  16. Back Matter

    Pages 224-239
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About this book

This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Lincoln, UK

    Siân Adiseshiah, Rupert Hildyard

About the editors

Alice Bennett, Liverpool Hope University, UK. Wolfgang Funk, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany Jennifer Hodgson, postgraduate researcher, Durham University, UK Emily Horton, Brunel University, UK. Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, UK María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro, University of Zaragoza, Spain Florian Niedlich, University of Würzburg, Germany Daniel O'Gorman, postgraduate researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Lucy Perry, An-Najah National University, Palestine Lin Pettersson, University of Málaga, Spain Phil Redpath, University of Lincoln, UK Jude Roberts, postgraduate researcher, University of Nottingham, UK Iain Robinson, University of East Anglia, UK

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