This course is focused on British fiction written during the last two decades of the twentieth century. The class will explore the development of post-modernism in Britain and consider the impact of the changing demographics of the U.K. in relation to the emergence of new kinds of literary texts.

Texts: Graham Swift, Waterland; Kazio Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day; Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot; Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body; Ian McEwan, Atonement; Zadie Smith, White Teeth