The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 Cambridge Companions to Literature Series

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Since 1945, British literature has served to mirror profound social, geopolitical and environmental change. Written by a host of leading scholars, this volume explores the myriad cultural movements and literary genres that have affected the development of postwar British fiction, showing how writers have given voice to matters of racial, regional and sexual identity. Covering subjects from immigration and ecology to science and globalism, this Companion draws on the latest critical innovations to provide insights into the traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain, thus making it an essential resource for students and specialists alike.

Introduction: critical constructions of British fiction since 1945 David James; 1. Mapping rural and regional identities Dominic Head; 2. Welsh fiction Kirsti Bohata; 3. Scottish fiction David Goldie; 4. Narratives of migration, immigration and interconnection Aarthi Vadde; 5. Re-envisioning feminist fiction Emma Parker; 6. Innovations in queer writing Sarah Brophy and Kasim Husain; 7. Nature writing and the environmental imagination Daniel Weston; 8. Science, technology and the posthuman Peter Boxall; 9. Late modernism and the avant-garde renaissance Julia Jordan; 10. Reanimating historical fiction Joseph Brooker; 11. The novel of ideas Michael LeMahieu; 12. Finance, fiction and the genre of a world economy Nicky Marsh; 13. Globalism and historical romance Matthew Hart; 14. Transnational forms in British fiction Weihsin Gui.

David James is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Author of Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space and Modernist Futures, his collaborative volumes on late twentieth- and twenty-first-century narrative include The Legacies of Modernism, Fiction since 2000: Postmillennial Commitments, and Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives.