Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I The Broken Promise: Ideology and the Ageing of the New 12
6. II Postmodern Reflections: Thinking after Marxism 62
7. III Postmodernity and the Historical Novel 123
8. IV Postmodern Political Fictions 152
9. V Postmodern Inadequacies: Adorno contra Jameson 198
10. Bibliography 208
11. Index 216