Contemporary British Fiction

Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature

by Nick Bentley

This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.

Genres: Literary Criticism, 21st Century, Theory, British Literature

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. Previous publications include Contemporary British Fiction: A Reader’s Guide to the Essential Criticism (2018), Martin Amis (2015) and The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (co-edited with Nick Hubble and Leigh Wilson, 2015).

Reviews

[Ana TM · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting book that explains concepts related to contemporary fiction in a very clear and divulgative way.

[يوسف عبداللطيف · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Contemporary British Fiction (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature)" by "Nick Bentley" completely breaks away from intellectual submission. It carries a free, anti-authoritarian streak that pushes readers to reclaim independent thought.