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| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| 1. The state and the novel: The post-war wilderness | |
| The testing of liberal humanism | |
| The sixties and social revolution | |
| The post-consensus novel | |
| Intimations of social collapse | |
| After Thatcher | |
| 2. Class and social change: 'The movement' | |
| Anger and working-class fiction | |
| Education and class loyalty | |
| The formal challenge of class | |
| The waning of class consciousness | |
| The rise of the middle class | |
| The rise of the underclass | |
| The realignment of the middle class | |
| The role of the intellectual | |
| 3. Gender and sexual identity: Out of the bird-cage | |
| Second-wave feminism | |
| Post-feminism | |
| Repression in gay fiction | |
| 4. National identity: Reinventing Englishness | |
| The colonial legacy | |
| The Troubles | |
| Irishness extended | |
| Welsh resistance | |
| The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness | |
| Beyond the Isles? | |
| 5. Multicultural personae: Jewish-British writing | |
| The empire within | |
| 'Windrush' and after: dislocation confronted | |
| The quest for a settlement | |
| Ethnic identity and literary form | |
| Putting down roots | |
| Rushdie's broken mirror | |
| Towards post-nationalism | |
| 6. Country and suburbia: The death of the nature novel | |
| The re-evaluation of pastoral | |
| The post-pastoral novel | |
| The country and the city | |
| Trouble in suburbia | |
| Embracing the suburban experience | |
| 7. Beyond 2000: Realism and experimentalism | |
| Technology and the new science | |
| Towards the new confessional | |
| The fallacy of the new | |
| A broken truth: Murdoch and morality | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography. |
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