A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000

- Notes on Contributors

- 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