| 本书系《剑桥文学介绍》丛书中的一种，在这部对战后英国小说的介绍中，Dominic Head教授表明了是如何通过小说来洞察20世纪下半叶社会与文化等重要的领域。作者对战后英国小说进行了最为详尽的研究，囊括了100多位小说家以及大约200部小说。内容主要包括：国家与小说、阶级与社会变化、性属与性别认同、民族认同、多元文化主义等。作者把小说放在社会与历史的大背景下进行评析和论述。在本书中作者给某些文学体裁的出现及其重要性以特别关注并将它们的发展与更为广阔的文化背景联系起来。此外，该书还提供了一些重量级小说家的具有争议的作品，特别是那些在某主题研究方面抢占制高点的多产作家。最后，作者对未来小说家，批评家以及学生可能会特别关注的问题做了思考。该书是目前对战后英国小说最为全面的评介，因此对该领域研究具有不可替代的价值。该书为英文版。 |
| Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The State and the Novel The Post-War Wilderness The Testing of Liberal Humanism The Sixties and Social Revolution The Post-Consensus Novel Intimations of Social Collapse After Thatcher Chapter 2 Class and Social Change The Movement’ Anger and Working-Class Fiction Education and Class LovalW The Formal Challenge of Class The Waning of Class-Consciousness The Rise of the Underclass The Realignment of the Middle Class The Role of the Intellectual Chapter 3 Gender and Sexual Identity Out of the Bird-Cage Second-Wave Feminism PoSt-Feminism Repression in Gay Fiction Chapter 4 National Identity Reinventing Englishness The Colonial Legacy The Troubles Irishness Extended Welsh Resistance The‘Possible Dance’of Scottishness Beyondthe Isles? Chapter 5 Multicultural Personae Jewish-British Writing The Empire Within ‘Windrush’and After：Dislocation Confronted The Quest for a Settlement Ethnic Identity and Literary Form Putting Down Roots Rushdie's Broken Mirror Towards P0st-Nationallsm Chapter 6 Country and Suburbia The Death of the Nature Novel The Re-evaluation of Pastoral The post-Pastoral Novel The Country in the City Trouble in Suburbia Embracing the Suburban Experience Chapter 7 Beyond 2000 Realism and Experimentalism Technology and the New Science Towards the New Confessional The Fallacy of the New A Broken Truth：Murdoch and Morality Notes Bibliography Index |
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