From 1980 to the present, huge transformations have occurred in every
area of British cultural life. The election of Margaret Thatcher in
1979 ushered in a new neoliberal era in politics and economics that
dramatically reshaped the British landscape. Alongside this political
shift, we have seen transformations to the public sphere caused by the
arrival of the internet and of social media, and changes in the global
balance of power brought about by 9/11, the emergence of China and
India as superpowers, and latterly the British vote to leave the
European Union. British fiction of the period is intimately interwoven
with these historical shifts. This collection brings together some of
the most penetrating critics of the contemporary, to explore the role
that the British novel has had in shaping the cultural landscape of
our time, at a moment, in the wake of the EU referendum of 2016, when
the question of what it means to be British has become newly urgent.
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ISBN
9781316999066
Publisert
2019
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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