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 Gdañsk, 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.