British Fiction After Modernism

MARINA MACKAY is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St Louis, USA. She is the author of Modernism and World War II (2007) and of articles on modern fiction in ELH, MLQ and Twentieth Century Literature. LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia where she teaches on the MA in Studies in Fiction. Her publications include The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998), edited with John Phillips, and The Writing of Anxiety: Psychoan

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: British Fiction After Modernism; M.MacKay & L.Stonebridge Rendering Justice to the Visible World: History, Politics and National Identity in the Novels of Graham Greene; A.Gasiorek The Case for Storm Jameson; E.Maslen The Nooks and Crannies of her Being: Howard Spring's Shabby Tiger and Northern Camp; P.Magrs A Plausible Magic: The Novels of Henry Green; J.Wood Varieties of Modernism, Varieties of Incomprehension: Patrick Hamilton and Elizabeth Bowen; J.Mepham James Hanley and the Colours of War G.Barrett The Girl on a Swing: Childhood and Writing in the 1940s; N.Reeve Ivy Compton-Burnett and Risibility; S.Crangle Angus Wilson: No Laughing Matter and No Laughing Matter ; S.Jacobi Reconsidering Lucky Jim : Kingsley Amis and the Condition of England; G.Londe Olivia Manning and her Masculine Outfit; J.Treglown The Cold War Way of Death: Muriel Spark's Memento Mori ; R.Mengham The Greater Tragedy Imposed on the Small: Art, Anachrony andthe Perils of Bohemia in Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows; V.Sage From Psychology to Ontology: William Golding's Later Fiction; K.McCarron The British Novel in 1960; B.Bergonzi Selected Bibliography Index

'[MacKay and Stonebridge's] brilliant understanding of the conditions of the novel after modernism has allowed them to revive this 'distant dream'. [...] This collection [...] offers a new vision of late modernity. It effectively explains the 'filmic narrative,' the montage and pastiche techniques.' - The European English Messenger