Jonathan Coe
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Jonathan Coe
By (Author) Professor Vanessa Guignery
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Red Globe Press
2nd December 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
823.92
Physical Properties
Hardback
192
Width 129mm, Height 129mm
322g
Description
Jonathan Coe is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary British writers. This comprehensive introduction places his work in clear historical and theoretical context, offering extensive readings of the author's ten novels from The Accidental Woman to Expo 58, including the remarkable What a Carve Up! The book explores Coe's biography and his experimentations with narrative, genre and comedy, as well as his thematic preoccupations with history, memory, loss and nostalgia. The first volume devoted entirely to Coe, this book includes: - A supporting timeline of key dates in literature and current events - An examination of the critical reception to Coe's works - An exclusive interview with Jonathan Coe himself
Author Bio
Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the cole Normale Suprieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of Novelists in the New Millennium (2012), also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
