Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48033-8 — The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan Edited by Dominic Head Frontmatter More Information This Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan’s work and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. His whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan’s technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary sociocultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels – such as Atonement – this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan’s more complex works invite, and shows how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career. is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School, 2007–10. His previous books are The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992), Nadine Gordimer (Cambridge, 1994), J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge, 1997), The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 (Cambridge, 2002), Ian McEwan (2007), The State of the Novel (2008), The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee (Cambridge, 2009) and Modernity and the English Rural Novel (Cambridge, 2017). Also, as editor: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, third edition (Cambridge, 2006), and The Cambridge History of the English Short Story (Cambridge, 2016). A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48033-8 — The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan Edited by Dominic Head Frontmatter More Information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48033-8 — The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan Edited by Dominic Head Frontmatter More Information THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO IAN MCEWAN EDITED BY DOMINIC HEAD University of Nottingham © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48033-8 — The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan Edited by Dominic Head Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge 28, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. 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Her monograph, Climate Crisis and the Twenty-First-Century British Novel, was published in 2018. She is Lec- turer of British Literature at HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen (the Netherlands). is Reader in Modern Literature at the University of Leeds, where he is Programme Leader for the English Literature BA and the Modern and Contemporary MA Pathway. He has published widely on the work of James Joyce as well as on many other modern and contemporary writers from Shakespeare to J. G. Ballard and Bob Dylan. Previous work on Ian McEwan includes essays on The Innocent and Saturday. is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Newman University, Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on post-1900 literature and on such writers as E. M. Forster, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, and Paul Scott in particular. His books include Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction Since 1970 (2005) and Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels (2013). has written on Ian McEwan’s Saturday in the journal Novel. His work on contemporary fiction more generally has appeared in the minnesota review and Contemporary Literature. He is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School, 2007–2010. His books include The Modernist Short Story (1992), The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 (2002), Ian McEwan (2007) and Modernity and the English Rural Novel (2017). Also, as editor: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, third edition (2006), and The Cambridge History of the English Short Story (2016). vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48033-8 — The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan Edited by Dominic Head Frontmatter More Information is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Among his books are Modernist Futures (2012)andDiscrepant Solace (2019), andeditedvolumessuchasThe Legacies of Modernism (2012)andThe Cam- bridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 (2015). He co-edits the series Literature Now. is Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Teesside University, UK. A former director of the UK English Subject Centre, his research interests include the history and pedagogies of English, and masculinities in narra- tive. His most recent book is Pedagogic Criticism: Reconfiguring University Eng- lish Studies (2017). is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University and co-editor of the journal Contemporary Literature. He is the author of Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Fiction, 1945–1975 (2013) and co-editor of Wittgenstein and Modernism (2017). He is the recipient of a 2018–2019 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. teaches at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He has written on the work of Jean Rhys, Graham Swift, John McGahern, and John Berger. His books include Understanding Ian McEwan (2002). He has also published on short fiction and modern poetry. teaches nineteenth-century and contemporary fiction at the University of Queensland. She has published three essays on Ian McEwan’s work: one on realism, one on The Comfort of Strangers as a reading of the underlying power of sadomasochism in patriarchal society, and the third on Black Dogs as Virgilian pastoral. Her present literary research looks at why classical pastoral is being reworked in contemporary literature. - is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The author of Insomnia: A Cultural History (2008), Ian McEwan: Sex, Death and History (2014), and A History of Wandering (forthcoming), she is currently working on a history of the sea and human emo- tions, and on the literature