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This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fiction, the ongoing development of separate national literatures of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shifts in modes of attention and reading.
From the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, the 2010s have been a decade of an ongoing crisis which has penetrated every area of everyday life. Internationally, there has been an ongoing shift of global power from the US to China, and events and developments such as the election of Donald Trump as US President, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the rise of the populist right across Europe and very gradually the incipient effects variously of AI. Nationally, there has been a decade of austerity economics punctuated by divisive referendums on Scottish independence and whether Britain should leave or remain in the EU.
Balancing critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors who have helped define this turbulent decade, including Nicola Barker, Anna Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid, James Kelman, James Robertson, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell, among others, this volume illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.
Contents
Contributors
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fiction of the 2010s in the Context of a Country in Transition
Emily Horton, Nick Hubble, Nick Bentley and Philip Tew
1. Fictions of the Break Up
Nick Hubble
2. Fiction in the Age of Distraction: Reading and Attention in the 2010s
Alice Bennett
3. Border Crossings: Diasporic British Fiction of the 2010s
Emily Horton
4. 'Defining it is a Struggle': Working-Class Fiction in the 2010s
Matti Ron
5. What's to-day? Politics and Typography in Ali Smith's Decade
Tory Young
6. The 'Teenie' Novels of Jonathan Coe: Intertextuality, Satire, Parody, Farce and Irony Philip Tew
7. 'The English Problem': Reading the Body Politic in Post-Brexit Fictions
Kristian Shaw
8. Inexhaustible Literature? Contemporary Experimental Approaches in Literature
Mark P. Williams
9. Speculative Fiction of the 2010s
Anna McFarlane
10. The Neo-mythological Novel: Re-writing the Epic in Contemporary British Fiction.
Nick Bentley
Timeline of Works
Timeline of National Events
Timeline of International Events
Biographies of Writers
Index
