Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture

This book shows how interrelated shifts in the global financial system and the global publishing industry have transformed the production of contemporary fiction in Britain and the USA. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers working in twenty-first-century literary studies, especially scholars of contemporary British and American fiction.

This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. It asks if the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist.

This book is for scholars of contemporary literature. It argues for a renaissance of British literary talent in the twenty-first century, introducing readers to several new writers. The analysis of utopian anticipation will also be of interest to academics working in utopian studies, critical theory and the philosophy of time.

This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovative study of Irish expatriate novels that situates Irish writing in terms of the country's changing place in an international order in a time of turbulent global change.