Sebastian Groes is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

• Series Editors' Preface \ Acknowledgements \ Preface: Ian McEwan and the Rational Mind, Matt Ridley \ Introduction: A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan, Sebastian Groes \ Chronology \ 1. Surreal Encounters in McEwan's Early Work, Jeanette Baxter \ 2. 'Profoundly Dislocating and Infinite in Possibility': Ian McEwan's Screenwriting, M. Hunter Hayes and Sebastian Groes \ 3. The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography, Claire Colebrook \ 4. War of the Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism, Natasha Alden \ 5. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement, Alistair Cormack \ 6. Ian McEwan and Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday, Laura Marcus \ 7. Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday, Sebastian Groes \ 8. On Chesil Beach: Another 'Overrated' Novella? Dominic Head \ 9. Solar: An Ecocritical Reading, Greg Garrard \ Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan, Jon Cook, Sebastian Groes and Victor Sage \ Further Reading \ Index.

"Ian McEwan is Britain's most consistently interesting and rewarding novelist and in this collection of essays his work receives the criticism it deserves. The contributors are thorough and intelligent, whether focused on the early stories, recent work like Atonement and Saturday, or even McEwan's screenwriting, and combine impeccable scholarship with lucidity that will make these essays accessible to the wide audience they ought to find. The chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an interview with McEwan are bonuses." - Professor Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina, USA