Author Description

Introduction: Mapping The Millennium: Themes And Trends In Contemporary British Fiction / Nick Bentley -- From Excess To The New World Order / Fred Botting -- 'refugees From Time': History, Death And The Flight From Reality In Contemporary Writing / Andrzej Gasiorek -- Science And Fiction In The 1990s / Patricia Waugh -- British Science Fiction In The 1990s: Politics And Genre / Roger Luckhurst -- The Mcreal Thing: Personal/national Identity In Julian Barnes's England, England / Sarah Henstra -- Cyberspace And The Body: Jeanette Winterson's The.powerbook / Sonya Andermahr -- 'fascinating Violation': Ian Mcewan's Children / Peter Childs -- 'tongues Of Bone': A.l. Kennedy And The Problems Of Articulation / Helen Stoddart -- Mr Wroe's Virgins: The 'other Victorians' And Recent Fiction / B.e. Maidment -- Pat Barker's Vanishing Boundaries / Lynda Prescott -- Singular Events: The 'as If' Of Beryl Bainbridge's Every Man For Himself / Fiona Becket -- Iain Sinclair's Millennial Fiction: The Example Of Slow Chocolate Autopsy / Julian Wolfreys -- Hedgemony?: Suburban Space In The Buddha Of Suburbia / Susan Brook -- Iain Sinclair: The Psychotic Geographer Treads The Border-lines / Peter Brooker. Edited By Nick Bentley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.