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The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Hubble Nick
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Description for The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Hardback. Editor(s): Hubble, Nick; Tew, Philip; Wilson, Leigh. Series: Decades Series. Num Pages: 303 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 630.
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and ... Read more
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Decades Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441172587
SKU
V9781441172587
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Ref
99-5
About Hubble Nick
Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury. Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing ... Read more
Reviews for The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
The 1990s is another installment in ‘The Decades Series,’ which begins in the 1970s and extend to the 2000s. UK-based scholars Hubble, Tew, and Wilson collected eight essays, all by British scholars, that look at British fiction of the 1990s in the context of ‘emergent globalism’ and ‘dynamic geopolitical events.’ Works by writers of this period often undermine ... Read more