1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Daniel O’Gorman and Robert Eaglestone
PART I: Forms
Chapter 1. The networked novel
Caroline Edwards
Chapter 2. Globalization
Kristian Shaw
Chapter 3. Sincerity
Martin Paul Eve
Chapter 4. Autobiografiction
Timothy C. Baker
Chapter 5. Experiment
Jennifer Hodgson
Chapter 6. Comedy
Huw Marsh
Chapter 7. Metafiction
Xavier Marcó del Pont
Chapter 8. Pastoral
Deborah Lilley
Chapter 9. Realisms
Sophie Vlacos
Chapter 10. Comics and graphic novels
Harriet E.H. Earle
PART II: Identities
Chapter 11. Black British fiction
Sara Upstone
Chapter 12: Queer
Alexandra Parsons
Chapter 13. Family
Stephen J. Burn
Chapter 14. Religion
Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tate
Chapter 15. Diaspora
Leila Kamali
Chapter 16. Indian fiction in English
E. Dawson Varughese
Chapter 17. Northern Irish fiction
Caroline Magennis
Chapter 18. Animals
Danielle Sands
PART III: Ruptures
Chapter 19. (The) Digital
Zara Dinnen
Chapter 20. Anthropocene
Sam Solnick
Chapter 21. Displacement
Emily J. Hogg
Chapter 22. Asylum
Agnes Woolley
Chapter 23. Finance
Paul Crosthwaite
Chapter 24. The 9/11 Novel
Arin Keeble
Chapter 25. War on Terror
Daniel O’Gorman
Chapter 26. From Civil Rights to #BLM
Anna Hartnell
Chapter 27. The past
Robert Eaglestone
Chapter 28. Hope
Emily Horton
PART IV: Case studies
Chapter 29. Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’
Katy Shaw
Chapter 30. Hari Kunzru
Lucienne Loh
Chapter 31. Jennifer Egan
Dorothy Butchard
Chapter 32. David Mitchell
Sarah Dillon
Chapter 33. Jonathan Lethem
Joseph Brooker
Chapter 34. Ali Smith
Daniel Lea
Chapter 35. A. L. Kennedy
Carole Jones
Chapter 36. Hilary Mantel
Jenny Bavidge
Chapter 37. Marilynne Robinson
Rachel Sykes
Chapter 38. Colson Whitehead
Christopher Lloyd
Index
Biography
Daniel O’Gorman is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He works on contemporary literature and terror.
Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and works on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies.
