- 232 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface Philip Tew
- A Critical Introduction: or, (Re-)contextualizing Jonathan Coe’s What a Carve Up! Philip Tew
- 1 Jonathan Coe: The Early Novels Merritt Moseley
- 2 Jonathan Coe’s Stories of Sadness Joseph Brooker
- 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
- 5 ‘These are my books’: What a Carve Up! and Video Aesthetics James Riley
- 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? (1973–5) Nick Hubble
- 7 From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotters’ Club Nick Bentley
- 8 Jonathan Coe’s The Closed Circle and a Satiric Mirror Sebastian Jenner
- 9 A Terrible Precariousness: Financialization of Society and the Precariat in Jonathan Coe’s The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Francesco Di Bernardo
- 10 Jonathan Coe’s Rewriting of Popular Genres in Expo 58 José Ramón Prado Pérez
- 11 Gothic Horror and Haunting Processes in Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 Vanessa Guignery
- 12 Neo-Gothic Minutiae and Mundanity in Jonathan Coe’s Satire, Number 11 Philip Tew
- Afterword: An Interview with Philip Tew on Number 11 Jonathan Coe
- Index
- Copyright
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