The Modern Language Review, July 1st, 2004
On Modern British Fiction. Ed. By ZACHARY LEADER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. viii+319 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924932-6.
Zachary Leader offers for our perusal an eclectic, engaging, if uneven collection of essays drawn from a conference on 'The Novel in Britain, 1950-2000' in California in 2000. The broad remit given his authors-tradition, nationality, genre, the market--seeks to establish a view of British fiction through what Leader identifies as the 'important or suggestive instances and examples' rather than any comprehensive survey of the field. A...
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