Understanding Contemporary British Literature
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Understanding Contemporary British Literature

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Understanding Contemporary British Literature

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Best known for her Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which were adapted into the BBC television series Case Histories, Kate Atkinson is the author of eleven novels, two plays, and a collection of short stories. Her literary awards include the 1995 Whitbread Award for a first novel and book of the year for Behind the Scenes at the Museum and the Costa Book Awards for best novel in 2013 and 2015 for Life after Life and A God in Ruins.

In this first book-length study of Atkinson's literary career, Brian Diemert examines the evolution of her novels: the playful and self-conscious work of the 1990s, the detective series novels, the books that examine Britain's history and its legacy of conflict and trauma related to World War II, and the most recent return to mystery. Diemert identifies her pattern of weaving multiple narrative strands into intricate plots that create the mystery at the heart of all her tales. He traces her development of narrative technique and thematic preoccupations of women's vulnerability within patriarchy and the complications of absent or disengaged parents. While her fiction is marked by allusiveness and humor, it remains profound and often touching as it explores the myths of British history and, particularly, women's lives.

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Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781643361543
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. UNDERSTANDING KATE ATKINSON
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. ONE: Understanding Kate Atkinson
  9. TWO: A Postmodern Trilogy? Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Human Croquet, and Emotionally Weird
  10. THREE: Short Fiction: Not the End of the World
  11. FOUR: Detective Fiction: The Jackson Brodie Novels
  12. FIVE: War and Other Things: Life After Life, A God in Ruins, and Transcription
  13. Conclusion
  14. NOTES
  15. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  16. INDEX