Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Amises, tradition, and influence: genealogical dissent
  • Brief anecdotal history: the mid-1980s and mid-1990s
  • Tradition, influence, and anxiety
  • Realism and revaluation
  • I: Critical cartography: charting the artistic allegiances
  • 1. The Amises on American literature: Nabokov, Bellow, Roth
  • Vladimir Nabokov: style as morality
  • Saul Bellow: prophetic realism
  • Philip Roth: egocentric narration
  • 2. The Amises on English literature: Austen, Waugh, Larkin
  • Jane Austen: mannered morality
  • Evelyn Waugh: decline and fall
  • Philip Larkin: the comedy of candor
  • II: Influence and intersection: the interplay of individual works
  • 3. The Amises on comedy: Lucky Jim and the Rachel papers
  • Lucky Jim: cultural and generational conflict
  • The Rachel papers: revaluative inversion and critique
  • "The two Amises"
  • 4. The Amises on satire: ending up and dead babies
  • Henry Fielding and Horatian satire
  • Mikhail Bakhtin and menippean satire
  • Characterization and closure
  • 5. The Amises on realism and postmodernism: Stanley and the women and money: a suicide note
  • Chauvinism, feminism, and misogyny
  • The autobiographical abyss: Jake's thing and Stanley and the women
  • Revaluative reminism? Money, misogyny, and doubling
  • The Amises, realism, and postmodernism
  • Revaluative realism: money and metamimesis
  • 6. The Amises on love, death, and children: the letters of Kinsley Amis and experience: a memoir
  • Higher autobiography: experience, midlife crisis, and the unconscious
  • Personal realignment: hilly redux
  • Professional realignment: the old devils
  • Personal realignment: experience
  • Projecting a future: the Amises, genealogical dissent, and the British novel since 1950
  • Whither and novel? Realism, postmodernism, and beyond
  • After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the event horizons of fiction
  • Professional realignment? Love, children, and night train.