Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 by James Acheson (2017, Trade Paperback)

The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000Author(s): James Acheson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474403733, 978-1474403733\nSynopsis\nFocuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelists\nThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is in five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms realist, postmodernist, historical and postcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with r.