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Author :  Richard Bradford, Madelena Gonzalez, Stephen Butler, James Ward, Kevin De Ornellas 

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.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature 1st Table of contents:

PART ONE
1 Before Now: An Essay on Pre‐Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
2 British Literature Today
REFERENCES
3 Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing
REFERENCES
4 Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama
PART TWO
5 Aidan Higgins
Introduction: Higgins’ counter‐realist experimentalism
REFERENCES
6 Brian Friel
Friel’s Early Life and Artistic Growth
Apprentice Works and Inspirations
The Birth of Modern Irish Drama
The ‘Troubles’, Field Day, and Friel’s Wild(e) Side
Internationalizing Irish Drama
The Later Years
REFERENCES
7 Alan Bennett
REFERENCES
8 Edward Bond1
The Future
BIBLIOGRAPHY
9 Seamus Heaney
REFERENCES
10 Michael Moorcock
11 Angela Carter
REFERENCES
12 Christina Reid
Biography and Background
Plays
Themes and Technique
Conclusion
REFERENCES
13 Bernard MacLaverty
REFERENCES
13a Eavan Boland’s Poetry
Introduction
Rewriting the Political Poem
The Ethical Contemplation of Violence and Death
A Lost Community No Longer Fusional: Erasures and Silences
Conclusions
REFERENCES
14 I Am, Therefore I Think
Introduction
Long Lankin: ‘Where’s the Little Heir of This House?’
The Artistic Process: When We Dead Awaken … We Find That We Have Never Lived
The Infinities and The Plight of Being Non‐human
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
INTERNET SOURCE
15 Julian Barnes
REFERENCES
16 Where They Are
Language
Place
Conclusion
James Kelman: Published Novels and Short Story Collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY
17 Howard Barker (and « the Art of Theatre »)
Biographical Landmarks
The Sociopolitical Premises of the Theatre of Catastrophe
The Theatre of Catastrophe: The Necessity of Tragedy
The Art of Theatre: Tragedy and Intimacy
REFERENCES
18 Marina Lewycka
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19 Dermot Healy
REFERENCES
20 David Edgar
REFERENCES
21 Ian McEwan
REFERENCES
22 Tom Paulin
Paulin’s Literary and Critical Work
Paulin’s Attitude Towards Politics
Understanding Northern Ireland through Other Cultures
Paulin’s Interest in Russia
Paulin’s Translation and Transformation of Poetry
REFERENCES
WEBSITES
23 Graham Swift
REFERENCES
24 Martin Amis
Introduction
The Making of a Writer: The Biographical Background
Writing against the Father: The Early Fiction
London Fields: Postmodernism and the End of Jane Austen
Lionel Asbo: Atavism and the Yob Within
The Progress of Time
The Zone of Interest
Flaws and Foibles: Summarizing Amis’s Talents
Conclusions
REFERENCES
25 PETER ACKROYD
REFERENCES1
WORKS BY PETER ACKROYD
NOVELS
POETRY
BIOGRAPHIES
OTHER NONFICTION WORKS
CRITICISM AND THEORY
26 Patrick McGrath
REFERENCES
27 Medbh McGuckian*
Background
Critical Reception, Major Themes
Reading the Work
WORKS CITED
28 Paul Muldoon
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3
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5
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Abbreviations
29 William Boyd
Life and Work
Critical Reception
Conclusion
REFERENCES
VIDEO
WEBPAGE
30 ‘Some of These Things Are True, and Some of Them Lies. But They Are All Good Stories’
REFERENCES
31 Linton Kwesi Johnson
REFERENCES
32 Hanif Kureishi
Postcolonial and Multicultural Issues to Postethnic Bricolage
Background and Beginnings
My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia
The Black Album and ‘My Son the Fanatic’
Short Stories and Postethnicity
Recent Fiction and Essays
REFERENCES
KUREISHI
33 Colm Tóibín
Introduction
Cultural and Political Background
Essential Silence
The Testament of Mary (2011/2)
REFERENCES
34 Janice Galloway
REFERENCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
35 Martin Crimp
Fringe Playwright: The Orange Tree Plays
New‐Writing Playwright: Royal Court Plays
Innovative Modernist: Attempts and After
Theatre Translator: Other Plays
Late Work: Returns and Reformulations
Conclusion
REFERENCES
36 Adam Thorpe
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37 Benjamin Zephaniah
II
III
IV
V
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38 Jeanette Winterson1
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39 Jonathan Coe
REFERENCES
40 From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton
Introduction: The Consistency of Voice and Tone
‘Mother’s Suburban Necro‐Utopia’: The Quantity Theory of Insanity (Short Stories)
‘Nyum, Nyum, Nyum’: Cock and Bull (A Novel)
‘Disseminators of Drek’: The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (Novella)
‘The Greasy, Greasy Kebabs of Home’: The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (Non‐Fictional Prose)
‘I don’t think Jesus would have moved the soup kitchen’: Will Self’s Great British Bus Journey (Audio Travelogue)
Volume II
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contributors Notes of Vol. II
Preface
PART TWO
41 Jackie Kay
BIBLIOGRAPHY
42 Kathleen Jamie
A Strong Scots Accent of Mind
Change Is Our Resting State
Persona Political, But Not in the Grand Sense
A Wildness Which is Smaller, Darker, More Complex and Interesting
REFERENCES
43 Ali Smith
REFERENCES
44 A.L. Kennedy
REFERENCES
45 Monica Ali
REFERENCES
46 Sarah Waters
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FURTHER READING
47 David Greig
Cosmopolitan Itineraries: Europe, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message, San Diego
Protean Nation: Victoria, Outlying Islands, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
Rough Theatre: The American Pilot, Dunsinane, The Events
A Dissensual Theatre
REFERENCES
48 David Mitchell
49 Emma Donoghue
Introduction
Dramatist
Historical Novelist
Contemporary Novelist and Fabulist
Recent Fiction: Room
Conclusion
REFERENCES
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
50 Hari Kunzru
REFERENCES
51 Mark O’Rowe
O’Rowe’s Background and Its Impact on His Work
An Overview of O’Rowe’s Career
The Future
REFERENCES
52 Conor McPherson
Introduction
Dublin, Masculinities, Monologues‚ and Films
Speculative Spectralities
Haunted Tigers/Un‐Bidden Dragons
Gender in McPherson’s Drama
Conclusion
REFERENCES
53 China Miéville
REFERENCES
54 Zadie Smith
Formalisms or No Form at All
NW ’s Thinking Forms
REFERENCES
PART THREE
55 Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
56 Reproducing the Nation
Introduction
The Cultural Reproduction of the Nation in Scottish Literature: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Banal Nationalism
Imagining the Social Reproduction of the Nation in Scottish Literature: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Essentialism
Scottish Literature and the Political Reproduction of the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries and Contextualism
Conclusion
REFERENCES
57 Welsh Writing in English
REFERENCES
58 Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers‚ and Spies
Decentring Englishness: The Rise of the Ex‐Centric
Performing Englishness: Gentlemen and Spies
Locating Englishness: Identity in Absentia
Conclusion: Englishness as a Symptom of Nostalgia, or the Confusion between Absence and Loss
REFERENCES
59 LGBT Fiction
Introduction: 1990
Literature, Community, History
Language and Identity
Pretended Family Relationships: Standing on Ceremony
Pretended Family Relationships: Christmases and Classrooms
REFERENCES
60 British Science Fiction 1990–2017
Introduction: Cool Britannia
New Millennium and Technology Fiction
Conclusion: Who We Want to Become
WORKS CITED
61 British Influences on the Graphic Novel
‘The British Are Coming’: The Myth of a ‘Second British Invasion’
A Critical Commentary on the ‘Invasion’ Interpretation
Conclusion
REFERENCES
62 The Girl‐Hero for the New Millennia
Victorian Heritage
Twentieth‐Century Antecedents
Contemporary British Children’s Fantasy
Recent British Fantasy
REFERENCES
63 Contemporary British Gothic
Kate Mosse: The Winter Ghosts (2009)
Catriona Ward: Rawblood (2015)
Peter James: The House on Cold Hill (2015)
David Mitchell: Slade House (2015)
Conclusion
REFERENCES
64 Post‐Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
REFERENCES
65 Globalization and Its Discontents in Twenty‐First‐Century British and Irish Crime Fiction
Multicultural Britain and Ireland
The New Global Order of Britain and Ireland
Regionalism Redux – Local Luddites
The Country and the City and the City
Border Backstop Blues
Blinkered Breviloquence due to Brexit
REFERENCES
66 British Psychogeographical Fiction
London through Time
Future Imperfect
REFERENCES
67 Representing Gender
Introduction
Reclaiming the Past: Neo‐Victorian Cross‐Dressing
Dialogic Narratives and the Role of the Other
Essential Identities and Bodily Constraints
BIBLIOGRAPHY
68 Approaches to Modern Contemporary Drama
Introduction
The Gay Play: Volcano; Bent; Beautiful Thing; Bomber’s Moon
The Campus Play: Butley, The Philanthropist, Educating Rita
The Irish Storytelling Play: Friel, McGuinness, McPherson
Conclusion: Past, Present‚ and Future
69 Verbatim Theatre
Pre‐history
The Mid‐1990s to the Present
Challenging and Conforming to the Mainstream
Documentary Realism and Beyond
In Search of Justice: Voicing the Marginalized
Critical and Audience Reception
Conclusion
REFERENCES
70 ‘It Had Stopped Being History and Turned into Experience’
REFERENCES
71 Global Literature and the Death of the Novel
The Novel in the Digital Age
World Literature and the Decline of Utopia
The Rise and Rise of the Global Novel and the Waning of the Aesthetic
A Plea for the Slow Novel
REFERENCES
72 Strange Metaphors
Introduction: Metaphors of Arrival
Conclusions: Black Writing in Britain and Marketing Aesthetics
REFERENCES
73 Public‐Facing Literature
Introduction
‘The Priziest Prize’
Literary Prizes
Literary Festivals
Social Media
Commingling Public Institutions
Conclusion

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