Major tendencies in British fiction from the 1990s to the present

British Fiction of the 1990's

Non political, non international fiction.

Themes:

Millenial anxieties
- millenium Angst:


 * Zadie Smith : White Teeth (2000)

- Science fiction:


 * Ken MaLeod :


 * The Star Fraction (1998)


 * The Stone Canal (1999)


 * Gwyneth Jones :


 * Bold as Love(2001)

Identity at the fin de siècle

 * post-feminism and anti-feminism


 * Helen Fielding : Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)


 * A.S. Byatt : Babel Tower (1996)


 * personal/national identity


 * Kazuo Ishiguro : The Remains of the Day (1989)


 * Julian Barnes : England, England(1998)


 * Zadie Smith : White Teeth (2000)


 * Sexuality, gender identity


 * Hanif Kureishi : The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)


 * Jeanette Winterson : Written on the Body(1992)


 * Children, childhood, parent-child relationships


 * Ian McEwan : Black Dogs(1992)


 * Atonement (2001)

Historical fictions
Peter Ackroyd


 * The House of Doctor Dee (1993)


 * Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994)

Pat Barker 's trilogy


 * Regeneration


 * The Eye in the Door


 * The Ghost Road (1991-1995)

Narrative Geographies
London in The Budha of Suburbia and Gabrie's Gift

Urban Pastoral in Arcadia, The Information

Historical London: The Biography

Psychogeography: DownRiver, Radon Daughters, Lights Out for the Territory, City of the Mind

Scotland: Trainspotting, How late it was, how late

Experimental Fiction
Martin Amis : Time's Arrow (1991)

Julian Barnes : Talking It Over(1991)

Hanif Kureishi : The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)
Set in 1970's London.

Jeanette Winterson : Written on the Body (1992)
Lesbian novel.

Julian Barnes : England, England(1998)
The Fifty Quintessences of Englishness survey

The Project: “England, England” theme park

Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005)
Neurosurgeon. Stream of Conciousness. Like Miss Dalloway.