Reading the Novel in English 1950–2000

Brian W. Shaffer is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at Rhodes College, Memphis. He is the author of The Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization (1993) and Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro (1998). He is also the co-editor with Hunt Hawkins of Approaches to Teaching Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" (2002) and the editor of A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 (Blackwell, 2005).

Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction: Contexts and Concepts for Reading the Novel in English, 1950-2000. 2. Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1953). 3. William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954). 4. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). 5. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). 6. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). 7. J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). 8. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985). 9. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (1989). 10. Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy (1992). 11. Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996). Index