Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The State and the Novel The Post-War Wilderness The Testing of Liberal Humanism The Sixties and Social Revolution The Post-Consensus Novel Intimations of Social Collapse After Thatcher Chapter 2 Class and Social Change The Movement’ Anger and Working-Class Fiction Education and Class LovalW The Formal Challenge of Class The Waning of Class-Consciousness The Rise of the Underclass The Realignment of the Middle Class The Role of the Intellectual Chapter 3 Gender and Sexual Identity Out of the Bird-Cage Second-Wave Feminism PoSt-Feminism Repression in Gay Fiction Chapter 4 National Identity Reinventing Englishness The Colonial Legacy The Troubles Irishness Extended Welsh Resistance The‘Possible Dance’of Scottishness Beyondthe Isles? Chapter 5 Multicultural Personae Jewish-British Writing The Empire Within ‘Windrush’and After：Dislocation Confronted The Quest for a Settlement Ethnic Identity and Literary Form Putting Down Roots Rushdie's Broken Mirror Towards P0st-Nationallsm Chapter 6 Country and Suburbia The Death of the Nature Novel The Re-evaluation of Pastoral The post-Pastoral Novel The Country in the City Trouble in Suburbia Embracing the Suburban Experience Chapter 7 Beyond 2000 Realism and Experimentalism Technology and the New Science Towards the New Confessional The Fallacy of the New A Broken Truth：Murdoch and Morality Notes Bibliography Index
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