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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 June 2019
      27 June 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108649865
      9781108483414
      9781108704922
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108649865
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    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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