Ben Masters is a novelist, critic, and Assistant Professor in English Literature, 1880 to the present, at the University of Nottingham. His first novel, Noughties, was published in 2012, and he has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, New York Times, and Five Dials, amongst other publications.

• Introduction 1: The Higher Morality: Anthony Burgess and 'The Business of Moral Choice' 2: Ifs, Buts, and Maybes: Angela Carter's Grammar of Curiosity 3: The King in his Countinghouse': Martin Amis and the Decorum of Excess 4: Twenty-First-Century Excess: Levels of Narration in Contemporary Fiction Coda

Ben Masters Novel Style is indeed a masterly critical achievement. His close readings of writings by Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and others are superb in their sensitivity and acuity. Not only does Masters develop fresh insights into how such authors relate ethics and prose style so that style itself becomes an ethical matter, he also draws on a diverse range of literary criticism and theory to present original thinking about the intimacy of literature to ethics and morality more generally.

Ben Masters is a novelist, critic, and Assistant Professor in English Literature, 1880 to the present, at the University of Nottingham. His first novel, Noughties, was published in 2012, and he has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, New York Times, and Five Dials, amongst other publications.

• Introduction 1: The Higher Morality: Anthony Burgess and 'The Business of Moral Choice' 2: Ifs, Buts, and Maybes: Angela Carter's Grammar of Curiosity 3: The King in his Countinghouse': Martin Amis and the Decorum of Excess 4: Twenty-First-Century Excess: Levels of Narration in Contemporary Fiction Coda

Ben Masters Novel Style is indeed a masterly critical achievement. His close readings of writings by Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and others are superb in their sensitivity and acuity. Not only does Masters develop fresh insights into how such authors relate ethics and prose style so that style itself becomes an ethical matter, he also draws on a diverse range of literary criticism and theory to present original thinking about the intimacy of literature to ethics and morality more generally.

Ben Masters is a novelist, critic, and Assistant Professor in English Literature, 1880 to the present, at the University of Nottingham. His first novel, Noughties, was published in 2012, and he has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, New York Times, and Five Dials, amongst other publications.

• Introduction 1: The Higher Morality: Anthony Burgess and 'The Business of Moral Choice' 2: Ifs, Buts, and Maybes: Angela Carter's Grammar of Curiosity 3: The King in his Countinghouse': Martin Amis and the Decorum of Excess 4: Twenty-First-Century Excess: Levels of Narration in Contemporary Fiction Coda

Ben Masters Novel Style is indeed a masterly critical achievement. His close readings of writings by Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, and others are superb in their sensitivity and acuity. Not only does Masters develop fresh insights into how such authors relate ethics and prose style so that style itself becomes an ethical matter, he also draws on a diverse range of literary criticism and theory to present original thinking about the intimacy of literature to ethics and morality more generally.