The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE

An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature.

Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more.

A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set:

• Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters.
• Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
• Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics
• Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Richard Bradford, is Research Professor at Ulster University and Director of the Ulster Literary Biography Research Centre. He has published more than thirty books, including eight well-reviewed biographies, most recently on Hemingway and Orwell. He is founder and general editor of the new Wiley-Blackwell biography series The Life of the Author.

Volume One

Preface
Richard Bradford

Part One

1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
Richard Bradford

2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literature
Stephen Butler

3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish Writing
James Ward

4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary Drama
Kevin De Ornellas

Part Two

5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies
Neil Murphy

6. Brian Friel
Graham Price

7. Alan Bennett
Joseph H. O’Mealy

8. Edward Bond
Peter Billingham

9. Seamus Heaney
Adam Hanna

10. Michael Moorcock
Mark Williams

11. Angela Carter
Anja Muller-Wood

12. Christina Reid
Michal Lachman

13. Bernard MacLaverty 
Richard Russell

14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville’s fiction
Alisa Hemphill

15. Julian Barnes (born 1946)
Vanessa Guignery

16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman’s Fiction
Johnny Rodger

17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre)
Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala

18. Marina Lewycka
Heather Fielding

19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014)
Keith Hopper

20. David Edgar
Sean Carney

21. Ian McEwan
Brian Diemert

22. Tom Paulin - Writer and Translator
Stephanie Schwerter

23. Graham Swift
Daniel Lea

24. Martin Amis
Andrew James

25. Peter Ackroyd
Jean-Michel Ganteau

26. Patrick McGrath
Sue Zlosnik

27. Medbh Mcguckian
Barbola Farago

28. Paul Muldoon
Alex Alonso

29. William Boyd: ‘Fiction… so real you forget it is fiction’
Christine Berberich

30. ‘Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories’: the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel 
Laura J Burkinshaw

31. Linton Kwesi Johnson
Emily Taylor Merriman

32. Hanif Kureishi
Laurenz Volkmann

33. Colm Tóibín
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

34. Janice Galloway
Dorothy Mcmillan

35. Martin Crimp
Aleks Sierz 

36. Adam Thorpe
Dominic Head

37. Benjamin Zephaniah
Graham MacPhee

38. Jeanette Winterson
Susana Onega

39. Jonathan Coe
Laurent Mellet

40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will Self
Kevin De Ornellas

Volume Two

Preface
Richard Bradford

Part Two

41. Jackie Kay
Nerys Williams

42. Kathleen Jamie
Heather Yeung

43. Ali Smith
Monica Germanà

44. A.L. Kennedy
Monika Szuba

45. Monica Ali
Michael Perfect

46. Sarah Waters
Natasha Alden

47. David Greig
Clare Wallace

48. David Mitchell
Patrick O’Donnell

49. Emma Donoghue
Abigail Palko

50. Hari Kunzru
Peter Childs

51. Mark O’Rowe
David Clare

52. Conor McPherson
Eamonn Jordan

53. China Miéville
Eric Sandberg

54. Zadie Smith
Chris Holmes

Part Three

55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary Poetry
David Wheatley

56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish Literature
Arianna Introna

57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present)
D.J. Howells

58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British Novel
Elsa Cavalié

59. LGBT and Fiction
Joseph Ronan

60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative ‘Singularity’
Dr Grace Halden

61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the ‘Invasion’ Model of Interpretation
Hugo Frey

62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice’s Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy Worlds
Katharine Kittredge

63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story.
Katherine Byrne

64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction
Dr. George Legg

65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime Fiction
Stephen Butler

66. British Psychogeographical Fiction
Eva M. Pérez-Rodríguez

67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British Literature
Justine Goneaud

68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary Drama
Kevin De Ornellas

69. Verbatim Theatre
Cyrielle Garson

70. ‘It had stopped being history and turned into experience’: An Approach to the Historical Novel.
Rebecca Devine

71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-Persepective
Madelena Gonzalez

72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in Britain
Jenni Ramone

73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social Media
Millicent Weber

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