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The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018 Edited by Peter Boxall Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48341-4 — The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018 Edited by Peter Boxall Index More Information INDEX 2008 Financial Crisis, 2, 275 The Nature of the Offence, 269 9/11 Attacks, 2, 52, 57, 58, 63, 99, 241, 248, The Rachel Papers, 6 266, 269, 274–5, 276, 277, 278, 293 Time’s Arrow, 169, 207, 208, 269 Anderson, Benedict Acker, Kathy, 138 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Ackroyd, Peter, 9, 22, 39, 92, 111 Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Chatterton, 22 48, 49 Hawksmoor, 22, 92 Asher, Neal, 152 Adair, Gilbert, 260 Aslam, Nadeem Adichie, Chimanda Ngozi, 169 The Wasted Vigil, 60, 61 Adiseshiah, Sian, 3 Athill, Diana, 108, 109 Afghanistan Atwood, Margaret, 119, 169 Afghanistan War, 2, 5, 58–61, 241, 266, The Handmaid’s Tale, 161, 222 269, 275, 293 The MaddAddam Trilogy, 160 Soviet Occupation, 60, 258 Austen, Jane Agamben, Giorgio, 73 Emma, 52 Ahmed, Sara, 231 AIDS/HIV crisis, 82 Bailey’s Prize, The, 124 Aldiss, Brian Bainbridge, Beryl, 112 Greybeard, 164 Baird, Wilhelmina Ali, Monica Clipjoint, 153 Brick Lane, 26, 270 Crashcourse, 153 Allende, Isabel, 169 Psykosis, 153 Altman, Robert Bakhtin, Mikhail, 93 Gosford Park, 194 Bal, Mieke, 52 Amazon, 5, 116, 119, 122, 123, Baldwin, James, 215 126 Ballard, J.G., 8, 70–6, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 145, Kindle, 122 162, 238, 260, 262 Amis, Kingsley, 18, 97, 150, 256 Cocaine Nights, 70–6, 145 Amis, Martin, 6, 10, 18–20, 57, 110, 112, Crash, 145 114, 115, 201–3, 204, 205–9, 214, Empire of the Sun, 145, 260 215, 216, 259, 263, 276 Kingdom Come, 145 Dead Babies, 6 Millennium People, 145 Einstein’s Monsters, 263 Super-Cannes, 70–6, 145 London Fields, 19, 212 The Atrocity Exhibition, 145 Money, 6, 18, 19, 141–2, 205, 263 The Drowned World, 145, 162 Night Train, 207, 212 The Kindness of Women, 145 The Information, 110, 207, 212 Balzac, Honoré de, 99, 150 299 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48341-4 — The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018 Edited by Peter Boxall Index More Information index Bangladesh, 24 Rockaby, 140 Banks, Iain, 260 The Unnamable, 139 Barker, Nicola, 8, 56, 57, 214 Waiting for Godot, 139 Darkmans, 169 Worstward Ho, 17 H(A)PPY, 56 Bellow, Saul, 17, 141, 201, 202, 203–6, 207, Barker, Pat, 8, 9, 17, 21, 29, 41, 139, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 268 215, 216 Blow Your House Down, 29 Herzog, 204, 211 Liza’s England, 21 The Adventures of Augie March, 37, Regeneration, 29, 41, 94, 268 204, 207 The Eye in the Door, 29 Bennett, Claire-Louise The Ghost Road, 29, 41 Pond, 100 The Regeneration Trilogy, 169, 221 Beowulf, 111 Union Street, 29 Berger, John Barnes, Julian, 6, 10, 17, 18, 20, 30, 39, 92, G, 110, 125 112, 125, 132, 201–2, 203, 205–6, Bergonzi, Bernard 207, 208, 209, 214, 215, 216 The Situation of the Novel, 202 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Betjeman, John, 112 21, 92, 210, 214 Bhabha, Homi Arthur & George, 209 Nation and Narration, 48 Before She Met Me, 20 Blackwood, Algernon, 155 England, England, 210 Blair, Tony, 5, 32, 274, 275, Flaubert’s Parrot, 20, 21, 93, 207, 208, 279 210 Blairism, 276 Love, etc, 205, 210, 214 Bleasdale, Alan Metroland, 20 Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series, 259 Talking it Over, 210, 214 Bolaño, Roberto, 170 The Sense of an Ending, 125, 209–10, 278 Booker Prize, The, 23, 27, 35–6, 40–1, 105, Baron-Cohen, Simon, 76 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 119–20, 122, Barry, Sebastian, 169 124, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 143, Barth, John, 138, 140, 204 161, 176, 177, 237, 239, 261, 264, Barthelme, Donald, 138 268–9 Barthes, Roland, 17, 91, 94, 140 Borges, Jorge Luis, 261 Mythologies, 91 Bosnian Genocide, The, 254, 265, 266 Baudrillard, Jean, 76, 81, 186 Boxall, Peter, 3 Baxter, Steven Boyd, William Flood, 165 Armadillo, 268 Beadle-Blair, Ricki, 232 Boyle, Danny Beaton, M. C., 157 Trainspotting (film), 187, 195 Beatty, Paul, 119, 132 Bradbury, Malcolm, 204 Bauman, Zygmunt Brenton, Howard Liquid Modernity, 113 The Romans in Britain, 259 Beckett, Samuel, 1, 11, 17, 27, 107, 109, 139, Brenton, Howard and Hare, David 157, 290 Pravda, 259 Come and Go, 140 Brexit, 5, 11, 75, 145, 251, 252, 267, 270, Company, 17 276, 277, 279, 287, 291 Endgame, 139 British Commonwealth, The, 115, 126, 183, Happy Days, 139 256, 257, 258 Ill Seen Ill Said, 17 British Nationality Act of 1948, The, 23 Krapp’s Last Tape, 139 Britpop, 32, 38, 266 Malone Dies, 139 Brooke-Rose, Christine, 150, 260 Molloy, 139 Brookmyre, Christopher, 157 Ohio Impromptu, 140 Brown, Wendy, 2, 4 300 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48341-4 — The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018 Edited by Peter Boxall Index More Information index Burdekin, Katharine Top Girls, 259 Swastika Night, 161 Cixous, Hélène, 82 Burgess, Anthony, 92 Cloning, 80, 81, 87, 161, 194 Earthly Powers, 109, 260 Coe, Jonathan Burn, Gordon, 151 What a Carve Up!, 40, 169 Alma Cogan, 169 Cold War, The, 256–8, 262, 263, 265, Happy Like Murderers 266, 268 The True Story of Fred and Rosemary Cole, Teju, 96 West, 159 Collins, Wilkie, 155 Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son Commonwealth, The, 23 The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper, 159 Connor, Steven, 3 Burroughs, William, 107, 138, 202, 204 The English Novel in History, 3 Butler, Judith, 94, 275, 293 Cookson, Catherine, 114 Butler, Octavia, 164 Costa Book Awards, 124 Byatt, A.S., 9, 40, 41, 92, 128, 192, 203 Cox, Jo, 5 ‘Morpho Eugenia’, 192, 193 Crace, Jim, 42, 161, 167 Possession, 40, 92, 94, 169 Being Dead, 42, 43 The Biographer’s Tale, 40, 94 The Pesthouse, 164 Cuarón, Alfonso Calvino, Italo Children of Men, 224 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, 163 Culler, Jonathan, 49 Carey, Peter, 132, 169 Cusk, Rachel, 96 Oscar and Lucinda, 176 Aftermath, 96 Caribbean, The, 23, 26, 125, 257, 266, 267 Outline, 96 Carpentier, Alejo, 261 Transit, 96 Caribbean, The, 38 Cyberpunk, 152, 153, 154, 156, 159, Jamaica, 27, 266 160 St. Kitts, 38 Cyborg, 71, 81, 153 Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland, 154 Davies, Alistair, 3 Carter, Angela, 6, 8, 9, 10, 22, 28–9, 90, 91, Davies, Andrew 112, 143, 144, 145, 170, 171, 172–6, Pride and Prejudice (TV Series), 187 177, 178, 182, 186, 188, 226–9, 232, Davis, Rob 233, 260, 261, 262, 276 The Motherless Oven, 70, 83, 84 ‘The Company of Wolves’, 230 de Bernières, Louis, 114 Nights at the Circus, 9, 22, 28, 91, 144, de Man, Paul, 94 169, 170, 172–3, 176, 261 Delany, Samuel R., 156 The Bloody Chamber, 6, 143, 144, 186, DeLillo, Don, 2, 138, 141, 169 226, 227, 228, 261 Cosmopolis, 2 The Passion of the New Eve, 91 Derrida, Jacques, 17, 94 The Sadeian Woman, 226, 227 Desani, G. V. Wise Children, 94 All About H. Hatterr, 261 Catholicism, 24, 83, 106 Dexter, Colin, 158 Catton, Eleanor Díaz, Junot, 170 The Luminaries, 119, 177 Dibdin, Michael Chabon, Michael, 170 Ratking, 157 Cheyette, Bryan, 3 Dickens, Charles, 155, 189, 273, 280–1, China 282–3, 288, 289, 290, 291, Economics, 4 292 Christopher, John, 152, 164 A Christmas Carol, 288, 291 When the Tripods Came, 152 A Tale of Two Cities, 288 Churchill, Caryl Bleak House, 280, 281, 283, 288 Serious Money, 259 Djebar, Assia, 244 301 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48341-4 — The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980–2018 Edited by Peter Boxall Index More Information index Donoghue, Emma Evaristo, Bernardine, 161, 167 Room, 159 Blonde Roots, 162 Donoghue, Emma Eyre, Richard Kissing the Witch The Ploughman’s Lunch (film), 188, 259 Old Tales in New Skins, 228 Drabble, Margaret, 8, 20, 30, 114, 150 Faber, Michel The Radiant Way, 20 The Crimson Petal and the White, 194 Duffy, Carol Ann, 214 Under the Skin, 194 Duncan, Glen Falklands War, The, 18 A Day And A Night And A Day, 60 Farrell, J.G. Duncan, Hal, 152, 154 The Siege of Krishnapur, 125, 171 Vellum, 156 Fascism, 23 Duncker, Patricia, 228 Faulks, Sebastian, 114 Seven Tales of Sex and Feminism, 21, 25, 28, 81, 82, 143, 144, 161, Death, 228 164, 173, 175, 177, 226, 227, 229, Dunsany, Lord, 155 231, 259, 261 Dyer, Geoff, 260 Fenton, James, 201 Ferrante, Elena, 170 Eaglestone, Robert, 3, 47 Fitzgerald, Penelope, 11, 264 Easton Ellis, Bret, 138 Innocence, 264 Eco, Umberto Offshore, 264 The Name of the Rose, 172 The Beginning of Spring, 264 Edgar, David The Blue Flower, 264 Maydays, 259 The Bookshop, 264 Egan, Jennifer The Gate of Angels, 264 ‘Black Box’, 117 Flanagan, Richard, 169 A Visit from the Goon Squad, 117 The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 177 Eggers, Dave, 215 Flaubert, Gustav, 99, 150 Eisenstein, Sergei, 185 Forster, E.M., 257 Eliot, George, 98, 139 ‘The Machine Stops’, 160 Eliot,T.S., 119, 144, 163 Howards End, 49 Elison, Ralph, 215 Forsyth, Bill Emecheta, Buchi, 26 Local Hero (TV Series), 259 The Family, 27 Foucault, Michel, 17, 76, 93, 172, 175, Eng, Tan Twang, 170 176, 226 Enright, Anne, 170 Fowles, John, 17, 92, 109, 140, 186 Esposito, Roberto, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 140, 81 171, 186 Terms of the Political, 74, 75 France, 21, 44, 118, 124, Eugenides, Jeffrey, 170 258 Europe, 26, 48, 164, 175, 248, 257, 258, 259, Francis, Dick, 114 268, 284 Frears, Stephen European Colonialism, 162 Dirty Pretty Things, 253, 254 European Literature, 52, 203, 237, 261 My Beautiful Launderette, 188 European Nationalism, 30, 270, 276 Freud, Sigmund, 76, 219, 262 European Orientalism, 242 Fukuyama, Francis, 269, 274, 293 European Publishers, 113, 115, 118 Fuller, Claire European Romanticism, 264 Swimming Lessons, 117 European Union, 75, 251, 252, 256, 258, 267, 270, 277 Gaddis, William,
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