The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The State and the Novel	13
	The Post-War Wilderness	14
	The Testing of Liberal Humanism	19
	The Sixties and Social Revolution	24
	The Post-Consensus Novel	29
	Intimations of Social Collapse	38
	After Thatcher	43
Ch. 2	Class and Social Change	49
	'The Movement'	50
	Anger and Working-Class Fiction	52
	Education and Class Loyalty	57
	The Formal Challenge of Class	63
	The Waning of Class-Consciousness	69
	The Rise of the Underclass	72
	The Realignment of the Middle Class	75
	The Role of the Intellectual	80
Ch. 3	Gender and Sexual Identity	83
	Out of the Bird-Cage	83
	Second-Wave Feminism	94
	Post-Feminism	105
	Repression in Gay Fiction	113
Ch. 4	National Identity	118
	Reinventing Englishness	119
	The Colonial Legacy	124
	The Troubles	131
	Irishness Extended	141
	Welsh Resistance	144
	The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness	147
	Beyond the Isles?	154
Ch. 5	Multicultural Personae	156
	Jewish-British Writing	158
	The Empire Within	161
	'Windrush' and After: Dislocation Confronted	164
	The Quest for a Settlement	170
	Ethnic Identity and Literary Form	172
	Putting Down Roots	175
	Rushdie's Broken Mirror	179
	Towards Post-Nationalism	182
Ch. 6	Country and Suburbia	188
	The Death of the Nature Novel	189
	The Re-evaluation of Pastoral	190
	The Post-Pastoral Novel	194
	The Country in the City	208
	Trouble in Suburbia	213
	Embracing the Suburban Experience	219
Ch. 7	Beyond 2000	224
	Realism and Experimentalism	224
	Technology and the New Science	233
	Towards the New Confessional	240
	The Fallacy of the New	245
	A Broken Truth: Murdoch and Morality	251
	Notes	260
	Bibliography	283
	Index	299