Joseph Brooker teaches English at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Joyce's Critics (2004) and Flann O'Brien (2005), and has co-edited issues of Journal of Law & Society and New Formations. He has written numerous articles on the modern literature of Britain, Ireland and the United States.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: After the Watershed; 1. Generations; 2. Disaffections; 3. Modes; 4. Belongings; 5. Commitments; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Brooker’s ability to represent such a wide range of literary and cultural texts within a coherent structure is no small feat. [...] The real strength of the book lies in its ability to provide such an impressively thorough account of a wide range of texts alongside some impassioned and convincing close readings of so many of them. Brooker is doing much more than simply defining, checking or expanding the shifting canons of eighties literature: his literary readings and his sense of the period make both available to us anew.

Joseph Brooker teaches English at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Joyce's Critics (2004) and Flann O'Brien (2005), and has co-edited issues of Journal of Law & Society and New Formations. He has written numerous articles on the modern literature of Britain, Ireland and the United States.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: After the Watershed; 1. Generations; 2. Disaffections; 3. Modes; 4. Belongings; 5. Commitments; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Brooker’s ability to represent such a wide range of literary and cultural texts within a coherent structure is no small feat. [...] The real strength of the book lies in its ability to provide such an impressively thorough account of a wide range of texts alongside some impassioned and convincing close readings of so many of them. Brooker is doing much more than simply defining, checking or expanding the shifting canons of eighties literature: his literary readings and his sense of the period make both available to us anew.

Joseph Brooker teaches English at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Joyce's Critics (2004) and Flann O'Brien (2005), and has co-edited issues of Journal of Law & Society and New Formations. He has written numerous articles on the modern literature of Britain, Ireland and the United States.

• Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: After the Watershed; 1. Generations; 2. Disaffections; 3. Modes; 4. Belongings; 5. Commitments; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Brooker’s ability to represent such a wide range of literary and cultural texts within a coherent structure is no small feat. [...] The real strength of the book lies in its ability to provide such an impressively thorough account of a wide range of texts alongside some impassioned and convincing close readings of so many of them. Brooker is doing much more than simply defining, checking or expanding the shifting canons of eighties literature: his literary readings and his sense of the period make both available to us anew.