Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

GAVIN KEULKS is Associate Professor of English at Western Oregon University, USA, where he teaches contemporary British and Irish Literature. He is author of Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and the British Novel Since 1950 (2003). He is also the online administrator of the Martin Amis Web.

• Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction; G.Keulks "My Heart Really Goes Out to Me": The Self-Indulgent Highway to Adulthood in The Rachel Papers ; N.Brooks Looking-glass Worlds in Martin Amis's Early Fiction: Reflectiveness, Mirror Narcissism, and Doubles; R.Todd The Passion of John Self: Allegory, Economy, and Expenditure in Martin Amis's Money ; T.Bényei Money Makes the Man: Gender and Sexuality in Martin Amis's Money ; E.Parker Martin Amis and Late Twentieth-Century Working-Class Masculinity: Money and London Fields ; P.Tew The Female Form, Sublimation, and Nicola Six; S.Brook Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime; B.Finney Under the Dark Sun of Melancolia: Writing and Loss in The Information ; C.Bernard Mimesis and Informatics in The Information ; R.Menke W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis; G.Keulks J.G. Ballard's "Inner Space" and the Early Fiction of Martin Amis; J.Diedrick A Reluctant Leavisite: Martin Amis's "Higher" Journalism; M.Hunter Hayes Nonfiction by Martin Amis, 1971-2005: Bibliography; J.Diedrick & M.Hunter Hayes Index

'This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliography of Amis's prolific nonfiction. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Amis and contemporary writing.' - Nicolas Tredell, School of Humanities, University of Sussex, editor of The Fiction of Martin Amis: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism