Introduction | |
Life and contexts | p. 1 |
The early years, 1949-73 | p. 1 |
Emerging from his father's shadow, 1974-84 | p. 10 |
The years of ascendancy, 1985-95 | p. 17 |
Responding to a changed world, 1995-2007 | p. 26 |
Further reading | p. 34 |
Works | p. 35 |
Novels | p. 35 |
Collections of short stories | p. 67 |
Autobiographical works | p. 71 |
Essay collections | p. 77 |
Further reading | p. 85 |
Criticism | p. 86 |
Intertextuality | p. 86 |
Contemporary reception of Amis's work | p. 95 |
Major thematic concerns | p. 100 |
Subjectivity and Amis's characters | p. 110 |
Amis and postmodernism | p. 116 |
Author, reader, narrator, and narration | p. 123 |
Genre | p. 132 |
Gendered readings | p. 139 |
Linguistic inventiveness | p. 147 |
Further reading | p. 153 |
Chronology | p. 154 |
Bibliography | p. 159 |
Index | p. 172 |
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