The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodern Fiction

Bran Nicol (University of Surrey)

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Cambridge University Press
21 August 2025

Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Postmodern modes of writing have contributed to a rich tradition of innovative and memorable British fiction in the period stretching from the late twentieth century to the present day. Postmodernism has been dismissed as introspective or ahistorical, but its British incarnation demonstrates how compassionate, political, and socially conscious it can be. This volume provides fresh, accessible readings of the most influential examples of postmodern British fiction – and work by more recent, post-millennial writers working in its slipstream. It plots its emergence, reassesses its highpoint in the 1980s and 1990s, and delineates its legacy in the twenty-first century. A valuable resource for students, researchers, and the general reader, this Companion provides powerful critical frameworks to understand its geographies; its relationship to North American postmodernism; its renovation of literary forms such as the romance, speculative fiction, and the historical novel; and its vibrant engagements with race, gender, sexuality, and questions of national identity.

Edited by: Bran Nicol (University of Surrey)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009585873
ISBN 10: 1009585878
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 21 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bran Nicol is Professor of English Literature at the University of Surrey. His many publications include The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (2009), Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel: A Reader (2002), Stalking (2006), The Private Eye (2013), and a forthcoming co-authored biography (with Emmanuelle Fantin) of Jean Baudrillard.