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Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and postcanonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.  \nPublished  \n1 A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu  \n2 A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker  \n3 A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan  \n4 A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter  \n5 A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan  \n6 A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown  \n7 A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley  \n8 A Companion to English Renaissance Literature  \nand Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway  \n9 A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns  \n10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts  \n11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Culture Elaine Treharne  \n12 A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen  \n13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco  \n14 A Companion to Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur F. Kinney  \n15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Antony  \nH. Harrison and Alison Chapman  \n16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing  \n17–20 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works,  \nVolumes I–IV Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E.Howard  \n21 A Companion to the Regional Literatures  \nof America Edited by Charles L. Crow  \n22 A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical  \nCriticism Edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted  \n23 A Companion to the Literature and Culture  \nof the American South Edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson  \n24 A Companion to American Fiction 1780–1865 Edited by Shirley Samuels  \n25 A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914 Edited by G. R. Thompson and Robert Paul Lamb  \n26 A Companion to Digital Humanities Edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth  \n27 A Companion to Romance Edited by Corinne Saunders  \n28 A Companion to the British and Irish  \nNovel 1945–2000 Edited by Brian W. Shaffer  \n29 A Companion to Twentieth-Century  \nAmerican Drama Edited by David Krasner  \n􀀁 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \nexcept for editorial material and organization 􀀁 2005 by Brian W. Shaffer  \nBLACKWELL PUBLISHING  \n350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA  \n108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK  \n550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia  \nThe right of Brian W. Shaffer to be identified as the Author of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 .  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission  \nof the publisher.  \nFirst published 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nA companion to the British and Irish novel 1945–2000 / edited by Brian W. Shaffer.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Blackwell companions to literature and culture)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 1-4051-1375-8 (hardcover : alk. paper)  \n1. English fiction—20th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. English fiction—Irish authors—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3.Ireland—Intellectual life— 20th century—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4.Ireland—","cbCaiiyNzMNOAP2g","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiyNzMNOAP2g","pdf",2631025,606,"English","# Contents\n## Notes on Contributors\n## Preface\n## Acknowledgments\n## PART I Contexts for the British and Irish Novel, 1945–2000\n## 1 The Literary Response to the Second World War\n## 2 The “Angry” Decade and After\n## 3 English Dystopian Satire in Context\n## 4 The Feminist Novel in the Wake of Virginia Woolf\n## 5 Postmodern Fiction and the Rise of Critical Theory\n## 6 The Novel and the End of Empire\n## 7 Postcolonial Novels and Theories\n## 8 Fictions of Belonging: National Identity and the Novel in Ireland and Scotland\n## 9 Black British Interventions\n## 10 The Recuperation of History in British and Irish Fiction\n## 11 The Literary Prize Phenomenon in Context\n## 12 Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry in Britain and Ireland\n## 13 The Novel and the Rise of Film and Video: Adaptation and British Cinema","[{\"question\":\"What is the scope of A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000?\",\"answer\":\"It surveys key periods and movements and certain major authors in English literary culture and history, focusing on contexts and major textual developments from 1945 to 2000.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the book organized?\",\"answer\":\"The contents list a set of front matter items and then Part I devoted to contexts for the British and Irish novel 1945–2000, followed by numbered chapters on specific themes.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the volume include academic references and index material?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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