Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. 0. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Systematic Questions
6. 1. The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre 23
7. 2. The Novel in the Economy, 1900 to the Present 42
8. 3. Genres: The Novel between Artistic Ambition and Popularity 64
9. 4. Gender: Performing Politics in Prose? Performativity – Masculinity – Feminism – Queer 82
10. 5. The Burden of Representation: Reflections on Class, Ethnicity and the Twentieth-Century British Novel 107
11. Part II. Close Readings
12. 6. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902) 133
13. 7. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) 152
14. 8. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) 175
15. 9. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) 195
16. 10. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) 213
17. 11. Henry Green, Party Going (1939) 232
18. 12. Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951–1958) 252
19. 13. Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) 268
20. 14. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) 288
21. 15. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) 303
22. 16. B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) 323
23. 17. J. G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970–1978) 344
24. 18. William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979) 365
25. 19. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) 384
26. 20. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) 403
27. 21. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989) 424
28. 22. A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) 445
29. 23. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995–2000) 461
30. 24. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) 481
31. 25. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) 498
32. 26. China Miéville, Embassytown (2011) 518
33. 27. Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009–) 536
34. 28. Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015) 555
35. Index of Subjects 575
36. Index of Names 592
37. List of Contributors 603