The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Volume One Preface Richard Bradford Part One 1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and Poetry Richard Bradford 2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literature Stephen Butler 3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing James Ward 4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama Kevin De Ornellas Part Two 5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies Neil Murphy 6. Brian Friel Graham Price 7. Alan Bennett Joseph H. O’Mealy 8. Edward Bond Peter Billingham 9. Seamus Heaney Adam Hanna 10. Michael Moorcock Mark Williams 11. Angela Carter Anja Muller-Wood 12. Christina Reid Michal Lachman 13. Bernard MacLaverty  Richard Russell 13a. Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative Community Pilar Villar-Argáiz 14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville’s fiction Alisa Hemphill 15. Julian Barnes (born 1946) Vanessa Guignery 16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman’s Fiction Johnny Rodger 17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre) Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala 18. Marina Lewycka Heather Fielding 19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014) Keith Hopper 20. David Edgar Sean Carney 21. Ian McEwan Brian Diemert 22. Tom Paulin - Writer and Translator Stephanie Schwerter 23. Graham Swift Daniel Lea 24. Martin Amis Andrew James 25. Peter Ackroyd Jean-Michel Ganteau 26. Patrick McGrath Sue Zlosnik 27. Medbh Mcguckian Barbola Farago 28. Paul Muldoon Alex Alonso 29. William Boyd: ‘Fiction… so real you forget it is fiction’ Christine Berberich 30. ‘Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories’: the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel  Laura J Burkinshaw 31. Linton Kwesi Johnson Emily Taylor Merriman 32. Hanif Kureishi Laurenz Volkmann 33. Colm Tóibín Kathleen Costello-Sullivan 34. Janice Galloway Dorothy Mcmillan 35. Martin Crimp Aleks Sierz  36. Adam Thorpe Dominic Head 37. Benjamin Zephaniah Graham MacPhee 38. Jeanette Winterson Susana Onega 39. Jonathan Coe Laurent Mellet 40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will Self Kevin De Ornellas Volume Two Preface Richard Bradford Part Two 41. Jackie Kay Nerys Williams 42. Kathleen Jamie Heather Yeung 43. Ali Smith Monica Germanà 44. A.L. Kennedy Monika Szuba 45. Monica Ali Michael Perfect 46. Sarah Waters Natasha Alden 47. David Greig Clare Wallace 48. David Mitchell Patrick O’Donnell 49. Emma Donoghue Abigail Palko 50. Hari Kunzru Peter Childs 51. Mark O’Rowe David Clare 52. Conor McPherson Eamonn Jordan 53. China Miéville Eric Sandberg 54. Zadie Smith Chris Holmes Part Three 55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry David Wheatley 56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish Literature Arianna Introna 57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present) D.J. Howells 58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British Novel Elsa Cavalié 59. LGBT and Fiction Joseph Ronan 60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative ‘Singularity’ Dr Grace Halden 61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the ‘Invasion’ Model of Interpretation Hugo Frey 62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice’s Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy Worlds Katharine Kittredge 63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story. Katherine Byrne 64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Dr. George Legg 65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime Fiction Stephen Butler 66. British Psychogeographical Fiction Eva M. Pérez-Rodríguez 67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British Literature Justine Goneaud 68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary Drama Kevin De Ornellas 69. Verbatim Theatre Cyrielle Garson 70. ‘It had stopped being history and turned into experience’: An Approach to the Historical Novel. Rebecca Devine 71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-Persepective Madelena Gonzalez 72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in Britain Jenni Ramone 73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social Media Millicent Weber