Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945-2000: 1. The Literary Response to the Second World War: Damon Marcel Decoste (University of Regina). 2. The 'Angry' Decade and After: Dale Salwak (Citrus College). 3. English Dystopian Satire in Context: M. Keith Booker (University of Arkansas in Fayetteville). 4. The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf : Roberta Rubenstein (American University in Washington). 5. Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory: Patricia Waugh (University of Durham). 6. The Novel and the End of Empire: Reed Way Dasenbrock (University of New Mexico). 7. Postcolonial Novels and Theories: Feroza Jussawalla (University of New Mexico). 8. Fictions of Belonging: National Identity, Literary Culture, and the Novel in Ireland and Scotland: Gerard Carruthers (University of Glasgow). 9. Black-British Interventions: John Skinner (University of Turku, Finland). 10. The Recuperation of History in British and Irish Fiction: Margaret Scanlan (Indiana University South Bend). 11. The Literary Prize Phenomenon in Context: James F. English (University of Pennsylvania). 12. Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry in Britain and Ireland: Claire Squires (Oxford Brookes University). 13. The Novel and the Rise of Film and Video: Adaptation and British Cinema: Brian McFarlane (Monash University). 14. The English Heritage Industry and Other Trends in the Novel at the Millennium: Peter Childs (University of Gloucestershire). PART II Reading Individual Texts and Authors: 15. Samuel Beckett's Watt: S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University) and Chris Ackerley (University of Otago). 16. George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four: Erika Gottlieb (Ryerson Polytechnic University). 17. Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and Other Late Novels: Bernard Schweizer (Long Island University). 18. Modernism's Swansong: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano: Patrick A. McCarthy (University of Miami). 19. Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter and Other Late Novels: Cedric Watts (University of Sussex). 20. William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Other Early Novels: Kevin McCarron (University of Surrey). 21. Amis, Father and Son: Merritt Moseley (University of North Carolina). 22. Iris Murdoch: Margaret Moan Rowe (Purdue University). 23. Academic Satire: the Campus Novel in Context: Kenneth Womack (Penn State University). 24. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: Julius Rowan Raper (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). 25. The Oxford Fantasists: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: Peter J. Schakel (Hope College). 26. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Bryan Cheyette (Southampton University). 27. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: Judith Kegan Gardiner (University of Illinois at Chicago). 28. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: John J. Su (Marquette University). 29. John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman: James Acheson (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). 30. Angela Carter: Nicola Pitchford (Fordham University). 31. Margaret Drabble: Margaret Moan Rowe (Purdue University). 32. V. S. Naipaul: Timothy Weiss (Chinese University of Hong Kong). 33. Salman Rushdie: Nico Israel (City University of New York). 34. The Irish Novel after Joyce: Donna Potts (Kansas State University). 35. Anita Brookner: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm (University of Gdansk, Poland). 36. Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot: Merritt Moseley (University of North Carolina). 37. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day: Cynthia F. Wong (University of Colorado). 38. Ian McEwan: Rebecca L. Walkowitz (University of Wisconsin). 39. Graham Swift: Donald P. Kaczvinsky (Louisiana Tech University). 40. The Scottish New Wave: David Goldie (University of Strathclyde). 41. A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance: Lynn Wells (University of Regina). 42. Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy: Anne Whitehead (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne). Index.
