Name: Twenty-First Century Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-137-03518-9

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Siân Adiseshiah (Senior Lecturer in English)⁰,
Rupert Hildyard (Principal Lecturer in English)¹

Siân Adiseshiah
1. University of Lincoln, UK
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-x

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Introduction: What Happens Now
- Siân Adiseshiah, Rupert Hildyard
Pages 1-14
‘Such a Thing as Avant-Garde Has Ceased to Exist’: The Hidden Legacies of the British Experimental Novel
- Jennifer Hodgson
Pages 15-33
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
When the Two Sevens Clash: David Peace’s Nineteen Seventy-Seven as ‘Occult History’
- Dean Lockwood
Pages 49-65
Remaindered Books: Glen Duncan’s Twenty-First Century Novels
- Alice Bennett
Pages 66-80
‘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
‘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
‘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
A Voice without a Name: Gothic Homelessness in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me
- Emily Horton
Pages 132-146
Ghosts of Postmodernity: Spectral Epistemology and Haunting in Hilary Mantel’s Fludd and Beyond Black
- Wolfgang Funk
Pages 147-161
Intimations of Immortality: Sémiologies of Ageing and the Lineaments of Eternity in Contemporary Prose
- Lucy Perry
Pages 162-182
Crosshatching: Boundary Crossing in the Post-Millennial British Boom
- Jude Roberts
Pages 183-196
‘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
Finding the Right Kind of Attention: Dystopia and Transcendence in John Burnside’s Glister
- Florian Niedlich
Pages 212-223
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.

Keywords

fiction
novel
Romanticism
British and Irish Literature

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

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Twenty-First Century Fiction
Book Subtitle: What Happens Now
Editors: Siân Adiseshiah, Rupert Hildyard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137035189
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03517-2Published: 07 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44217-1Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03518-9Published: 04 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 239
Topics: Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, British and Irish Literature

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