In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of his major novels, including his most recent book Number 11, Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire includes chapters by leading and emerging scholars of contemporary British writing. The book features a preface by Coe himself and covers the ways in which his work grapples with such themes as class politics, popular music, sex, gender and the media.
In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of his major novels, including his most recent book Number 11, Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire includes chapters by leading and emerging scholars of contemporary British writing. The book features a preface by Coe himself and covers the ways in which his work grapples with such themes as class politics, popular music, sex, gender and the media.
Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. His many publications as both author and editor include Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (co-edited with Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson) The 1980s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014).
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Notes on Contributors Preface Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) A Critical Introduction: or, (Re)-contextualizing Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) 1. Jonathan Coe: The Early Novels Merritt Moseley 2. Sadness and Jonathan Coe's Fiction Joseph Brooker (University of London, UK) 3. Sexing Britannia: Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! or the Re/De-Sexualization of Thatcherite Britain Raluca Iliou 4. A Comedy of Horrors: Thatcherism in What a Carve Up! Emma Parker (University of Leicester, UK) 5. These are my books': What a Carve Up! and Video Aesthetics James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. What Became of the People We Used to Be?: The House of Sleep (1997) and the 1970s Sitcom, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-75) Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK) 7. From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club Nick Bentley (Keele University, UK) 8. Jonathan Coe's The Closed Circle and a Satiric Mirror Sebastian Jenner 9. A Terrible Precariousness: financialisation of society and the precariat in Jonathan Coe's The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Francesco di Bernardo (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) 10. Jonathan Coe's Re-writing of Popular Genres in Expo 58 José Ramón Prado Pérez (Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, Spain) 11. Gothic Horror and Haunting Processes in Jonathan Coe's Number 11 Vanessa Guignery (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) 12. Neo-Gothic Minutiae and Mundanity in Jonathan Coe's Satire, Number 11 Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) Afterword: An Interview with Philip Tew on Number 11 Jonathan Coe Index
Notes on Contributors Preface Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) A Critical Introduction: or, (Re)-contextualizing Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) 1. Jonathan Coe: The Early Novels Merritt Moseley 2. Sadness and Jonathan Coe's Fiction Joseph Brooker (University of London, UK) 3. Sexing Britannia: Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up! or the Re/De-Sexualization of Thatcherite Britain Raluca Iliou 4. A Comedy of Horrors: Thatcherism in What a Carve Up! Emma Parker (University of Leicester, UK) 5. These are my books': What a Carve Up! and Video Aesthetics James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. What Became of the People We Used to Be?: The House of Sleep (1997) and the 1970s Sitcom, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973-75) Nick Hubble (Brunel University London, UK) 7. From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club Nick Bentley (Keele University, UK) 8. Jonathan Coe's The Closed Circle and a Satiric Mirror Sebastian Jenner 9. A Terrible Precariousness: financialisation of society and the precariat in Jonathan Coe's The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Francesco di Bernardo (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) 10. Jonathan Coe's Re-writing of Popular Genres in Expo 58 José Ramón Prado Pérez (Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, Spain) 11. Gothic Horror and Haunting Processes in Jonathan Coe's Number 11 Vanessa Guignery (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) 12. Neo-Gothic Minutiae and Mundanity in Jonathan Coe's Satire, Number 11 Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) Afterword: An Interview with Philip Tew on Number 11 Jonathan Coe Index
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