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Contemporary Crisis Fictions

Affect and Ethics in the Modern British Novel

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  1. Emily Horton
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 1-31

  3. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 32-54

  4. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reappraisals of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 55-106

  5. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 107-158

  6. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 159-216

  7. Epilogue

    • Emily Horton
    Pages 217-234

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 235-265
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About this book

This book 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.

About the author

Emily Horton is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary British and American fiction, specialising in space and place; contemporary genre and popular fiction; trauma fiction; and cosmopolitan fictions. She is currently co-editing a volume with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson entitled 1980: A Decade in Contemporary Fiction, and another with Monica Germana on Ali Smith.

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