Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary crisis fictions : affect and ethics in the modern British novel / Emily Horton.

Author

Horton, Emily

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Details

Description

viii, 265 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project."--Publishers website

Alternative Title

Affect and ethics in the modern British novel

Subject

• Swift, Graham, 1949- > Criticism and interpretation
• McEwan, Ian > Criticism and interpretation
• Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- > Criticism and interpretation
• Crises in literature
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Contemporary crisis fiction: A new approach to the writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan and Kazou Ishiguro -- Contemporary crisis fiction: Consturcting a new genre -- Curiosity of civilisation: Reappraisals of history in the fiction of Graham Swift -- Reassessing the two-culture debate: Popular Science in the fiction of Ian McEwan -- Shifting perspective and alternate landscapes: Culture and cultural politics in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro -- Epilogue: A review of contemporary crisis fiction with an emphasis on overlap between the works at a discursive level.

ISBN

• 1137350199
• 9781137350190

OCLC

• 881511247
• SCSB-10521075

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library