Retroland: A Readers Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction Kemp Peter
Retroland: A Readers Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction Kemp Peter The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novelOver the past fifty years, fiction in English has never…
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Retroland: A Readers Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction Kemp Peter
The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novelOver the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. This is truly a golden age.But what unites this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles?Celebrated writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed with the past. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread narratives.
In a series of engaging and illuminating chapters, Retroland traces this novelistic preoccupation with history, from the imperial and the political to the personal and the literary.Featuring famous names from across the United Kingdom, United States, and the wider Anglophone world, ranging from Salman Rushdie to Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison to Hilary