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Title Twenty-first-century British and Irish novelists / edited by Michael R. Molino
Published Detroit : Gale, ©2003
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 429 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 267
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 267
Contents G.E. Armitage (Robert Edric) (1956- ) -- Kate Atkinson (1951- ) -- Stephen Blanchard (1950- ) -- Clare Boylan (1948- ) -- Amit Chaudhuri (1962- ) -- Michael Collins (1964- ) -- Peter Cunningham (Peter Lauder, Peter Benjamin) (1947- ) -- Emma Donoghue (1969- ) -- Helen Dunmore (1952- ) -- Anne Enright (1962- ) -- Giles Foden (1967- ) -- Christopher Fowler (1953- ) -- Romesh Gunesekera (1954- ) -- Hugo Hamilton (1953- ) -- James Hamilton-Paterson (1941- ) -- Philip Hensher (1965- ) -- Michael Ignatieff (1947- ) -- John Lanchester (1962- ) -- Toby Litt (1968- ) -- Bernard MacLaverty (1942- ) -- Colum McCann (1965- ) -- Duncan McLean (1964- ) -- Candia McWilliam (1955- ) -- Livi Michael (1960- ) -- Andrew Miller (1960- ) -- Magnus Mills (1954- ) -- Mary Morissy (1957- ) -- Julie Myerson (1960- ) -- Jeff Noon (1957- ) -- Lawrence Norfolk (1963- ) -- Joseph O'Connor (1963- ) -- Kate O'Riordan (1960- ) -- Deirdre Purcell (1945- ) -- Ian Rankin (Jack Harvey) (1960- ) -- James Ryan (1952- ) -- Madeleine St. John (1942- ) -- Ahdaf Soueif (1950- ) -- Rupert Thomson (1955- ) -- Jonathan Treitel (1959- ) -- Robert McLiam Wilson (1964- )
Summary Essays on British and Irish novelists of the twenty-first century provides information on the historical events and figures from multiple perspectives that influenced the writers of this time period. Discusses historical novels, including the spectral historical novel, detailed criticism analyzing contemporary British fiction published in the new millennium, how novelists approach the facts of the past and the process of adaptation
Notes "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-351) and index
Notes English
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Subject English fiction -- Irish authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
English fiction -- Irish authors -- Dictionaries
English fiction -- 21st century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
English fiction -- 21st century -- Dictionaries
Novelists, English -- 21st century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Novelists, Irish -- 21st century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
SUBJECT Ireland -- In literature -- Dictionaries
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Molino, Michael R., 1956-
Gale Research Inc
LC no. 2002010923
ISBN 0787660116
9780787660116
Other Titles 21st century British and Irish novelists