The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980-2018

Peter Boxall is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sussex. He is author of many books on the novel, including Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006), Since Beckett (2009), Twenty-First-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 2013), and The Value of the Novel (Cambridge, 2015). He is editor of the bestselling 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2012) co-editor, with Byran Cheyette, of volume 7 of The Oxford History of the Novel (2016) and with Peter Nicholls of Thinking Poetry (2013). He is also editor, since 2009, of the journal Textual Practice. His most recent book, The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life, is forthcoming with Cambridge.

• Introduction: framing the present Peter Boxall; Part I. Overview: 1. The 1980s Bridget Chalk; 2. The 1990s Pieter Vermeulen; 3. Post-millennial literature Leigh Wilson; Part II. New Formations: 4. British writing and the limits of the human Gabriele Griffin; 5. Form and fiction, 1980-the present Kevin Brazil; 6. Institutions of fiction Caroline Wintersgill; Part III. Genres and Movements: 7. Late modernism, postmodernism, and after Martin Eve; 8. Experiment and the genre novel Caroline Edwards; 9. Transgression and experimentation: the historical novel Jerome de Groot; 10. Film and fiction from 1980-the present Petra Rau; Part IV. Contexts: 11. The Mid Atlantics Ben Masters; 12. Fiction, religion and freedom of speech, from 'the Rushdie affair' to 7/7 Stephen Morton; 13. Sexual dissidence and British writing Rebecca Pohl; 14. British cosmopolitanism after 1980 Patrick Deer; Conclusion: imagining the future Peter Boxall.