Jonathan Coe

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. His many publications as both author and editor include Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (co-edited with Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson) The 1980s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014).

• Notes on ContributorsPrefacePhilip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)A Critical Introduction: or, (Re)-contextualizing Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up!Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)1. Jonathan Coe: The Early NovelsMerritt Moseley2. Sadness and Jonathan Coe’s FictionJoseph Brooker (University of London, UK)3. Sexing Britannia: Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up! or the Re/De-Sexualization of Thatcherite BritainRaluca Iliou4. A Comedy of Horrors: Thatcherism in What a Carve Up!Emma Parker (University of Leicester, UK)5. These are my books’: What a Carve Up! and Video AestheticsJames Riley (University of Cambridge, UK)6. What Became of the People We Used to Be?: The House of Sleep (1997) and the 1970s Sitcom, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-75)Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK)7. From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters ClubNick Bentley (Keele University, UK)8. Jonathan Coe’s The Closed Circle and a Satiric MirrorSebastian Jenner9. A Terrible Precariousness: financialisation of society and the precariat in Jonathan Coe’s The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell SimFrancesco di Bernardo (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico)10. Jonathan Coe's Re-writing of Popular Genres in Expo 58José Ramón Prado Pérez (Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, Spain)11. Gothic Horror and Haunting Processes in Jonathan Coe’s Number 11Vanessa Guignery (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)12. Neo-Gothic Minutiae and Mundanity in Jonathan Coe’s Satire, Number 11Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)Afterword: An Interview with Philip Tew on Number 11Jonathan CoeIndex

Covering Coe’s fiction from The Accidental Woman (1987) to Number 11 (2015), this collection … will remind long-time fans about what there is to admire and enjoy in his work.