British fiction of the 1990s

@inproceedings{Bentley2005BritishFO,
  title={British fiction of the 1990s},
  author={Nick Bentley},
  year={2005}
}
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Mapping the Millennium: Themes and Trends in Contemporary British Fiction Nick Bentley Part 1: Millennial Anxieties 1. From Excess to New World Order Fred Botting 2. 'Refugees from Time': History, Death and the Flight from Reality in Contemporary Writing Andrzej Gasiorek 3. Science and Fiction in the 1990s Patricia Waugh 4. British Science Fiction in the 1990s: Politics and Genre Roger Luckhurst Part 2: Identity at the Fin de Siecle 5. The… 
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