Contemporary Crisis Fictions

Emily Horton is a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary British and American fiction, specialising in space and place; contemporary genre and popular fiction; trauma fiction; and cosmopolitan fictions. She is currently co-editing a volume with Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson entitled 1980: A Decade in Contemporary Fiction, and another with Monica Germana on Ali Smith.

• Introduction: Contemporary Crisis Fiction: A New Approach to the Writing of Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro 1. Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre 2. Curiosity and Civilisation: Reassessments of History in the Fiction of Graham Swift. 3. Reassessing the Two-Culture Debate: Popular Science in the Fiction of Ian McEwan 4. Shifting Perspectives and Alternate Landscapes: Culture and Cultural Politics in the Fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro Epilogue: A Review of Contemporary Crisis Fiction with an Emphasis on Overlap Between the Works at a Discursive Level Bibliography Index