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On modern British fiction / edited by Zachary Leader.
| Other author | Leader, Zachary. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| Description | viii, 319 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | V.S. Pritchett and English comedy / James Wood -- No laughing matter: a word on Angus Wilson / P.N. Furbank -- Mother tongue: a memoir / Ian McEwan -- Between Waugh and Wodehouse: comedy and conservatism / Christopher Hitchens -- Ladlit / Elaine Showalter -- Enigmas and homelands / Michael Wood -- No passes or documents are needed: the writer at home in Europe / Hilary Mantel -- Penelope / Wendy Lesser -- Why Christopher Isherwood stopped writing fiction / Katherine Bucknell -- Shaping modern English fiction: the forms of the content and the contents of the form / Valentine Cunningham -- Politics of narrative in the post-war Scottish novel / Liam McIlvanney -- Ruined futures of British science fiction / Patrick Parrinder -- P.D. James and the distinguished thing / Martin Priestman -- Novel adapted for television / Elizabeth Jane Howard -- Against dryness / Martin Amis -- Commissioning and editing modern fiction / Dan Franklin -- Before it becomes literature: how fiction reviewers have dealt with the English novel / Lindsay Duguid. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002072743 |
| ISBN | 0199249326 (acid-free paper) |