The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction: (The Decades Series)

Table of Contents:
Series Introduction, Nick Hubble (Brunel University, UK), Philip Tew (Brunel University, UK) and Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster, UK) Volume Introduction, Nick Hubble (Brunel University, UK), Philip Tew (Brunel University, UK) and Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster, UK) 1. Literary History of the Decade, Martyn Colebrook (University of Hull, UK) 2. Re-Writing National Identities in 1990s British Fiction, Nick Bentley (Keele University, UK) 3. The Misery Index: Memoir Boom and Bust in the 1990s, Claire Lynch (Brunel University, UK) 4. Postcolonial and Marginal Voices, Sara Upstone (Kingston University, UK) 5. Caught between the Short and Long Twentieth Centuries:Temporal Displacement in the Historical Fiction of the 1990s, Nick Hubble (Brunel University, UK) 6. The Subversive Revolution: British Experimental Fiction of the 1990s, Katy Shaw (University of Brighton, UK) 7. International Contexts I: Possessed by the Other: The Reception of British Neo-Victorian Fiction in America in the 1990s, Lynn Wells (University of Regina, Canada) 8. International Contexts II, Anja Müller-Wood (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany) 9. International Contexts III 10. International Contexts IV Timeline Brief Biographies Bibliography Index

About the Author :
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 and Director of the Modern and Contemporary Fiction Studies Network. Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of Modernism (2007) and Modernism and Magic (2013) and co-editor of The 1980s (2014) and The 2000s (2015) published by Bloomsbury.

Review :
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 popular opinions and the 'cultural and ideological myths' propagated by mainstream media. The contributors discuss a wide array of novelists and fiction writers-Martin Amis, Iain Banks, A. S. Byatt, Will Self, Christine Brooke-Rose, Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, Julian Barnes, to name only a few. The essays are provocative, incisive, and carefully researched, and the volume is notable for its addenda, which include a list of writers, a chronology of national events, and a time line of international events. Such a period approach to fiction writing offers a vital clue to the connection between art and the world, a connection often not evident at the moment of publication. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Nick Bentley's contribution on 'national identities in 1990s British fiction' is lucid and thoughtful ... [and] will be an excellent resource for undergraduates ... [whilst] Upstone makes an original and useful contribution to the scholarship on 90s black British literature.