Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Chronology xiii
5. Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s 1
6. Introduction 3
7. The Fiction of Discontent: Margaret Drabble’s The Ice Age and John fowles’s 30
8. “England made me”: John le Carré’s Karla trilogy 79
9. The Green World of Richard Adams 116
10. The Campus Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge: Politics in a Small World 153
11. Doris Lessing’s feminist Apocalyptic 199
12. Camels on the Embankment: v.S. Naipaul and the Globalization of the Novel 238
13. Notes 269
14. Works Cited 283
15. Index 313