TABLE OF CONTENTS

I INTRODUCTION

1. An Outline of the Objectives, Features and Challenges of the British Novel in the Twenty-First Century 3 Vera Nünning & Ansgar Nünning (Heidelberg/Gießen)

2. Cultural Concerns, Literary Developments, Critical Debates: Contextualizing the Dynamics of Generic Change and Trajectories of the British Novel in the Twenty-First Century 21 Vera Nünning & Ansgar Nünning (Heidelberg/Gießen)

3. The Booker Prize as a Harbinger of Literary Trends and an Object of Satire: Debates about Literary Prizes in Journalism and Edward St Aubyn's Lost for Words (2014) 53 Sibylle Baumbach (Innsbruck)

II CRISES, POLITICS AND WAR IN THE BRITISH NOVEL AFTER 9/11

1. Fictions of (Meta-)History: Revisioning and Rewriting History in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012) 71 Marion Gymnich (Bonn)

2. Fictions of Migration: Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2003), Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004) and Gautam Malkani's Londonstani (2006) 87 Birgit Neumann (Düsseldorf)

3. Fictions of Cultural Memory and Generations: Challenging Englishness in Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000) and Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) 103 Jan Rupp (Heidelberg)

4. Living with the 'War on Terror': Fear, Loss and Insecurity in Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) and Graham Swift's Wish You Were Here (2011) 119 Michael C. Frank (Konstanz)

5. Fictions of Capitalism: Accounting for Global Capitalism's Social Costs in Catherine O'Flynn's What Was Lost (2007), Sebastian Faulks's A Week in December (2009) and John Lanchester's Capital (2012) 139 Joanna Rostek (Gießen)

6. Science Novels as Assemblages of Contemporary Concerns: Ian McEwan's Solar (2010) and The Children Act (2014) 155 Alexander Scherr (Gießen)

III CULTURAL CONCERNS AND IMAGINARIES IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVELS

1. Exploring Fragile Relationships in the Twenty-First Century: Love and Marriage in David Nicholls's One Day (2009) and Mark Haddon's The Red House (2012) 173 Christine Schwanecke (Mannheim)

2. (De)Constructing Gendered and Sexual Identities in the Twenty-First Century: Fluid Selves and Multiple Worlds in Jeanette Winterson's The.PowerBook (2000) and Lighthousekeeping (2004) 187 Susana Onega (Zaragoza)

3. Fictions of Personal Memory: The Precarious Character of Remembering and Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans (2000), Penelope Lively's The Photograph (2003) and Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending (2011) 201 Dorothee Birke (Aarhus)

4. Fictions of Ageing, Illness and Dementia: Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother

(2006) and Emma Healey's Elizabeth is Missing (2014) 217 Susanne Christ (Gießen)

1. The Critique of Modernization in the Contemporary Novel: Imaginaries of Community in Marina Lewycka's The Lubetkin Legacy (2016) and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore (2003) 231 Stella Butter (Koblenz)

2. The Condition of England Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Zadie Smith's NW (2012) and Jonathan Coe's Number 11, or Tales That Witness Madness (2015) 247 Caroline Lusin (Mannheim)

3. Dystopian Novels: Biopolitics and the Posthuman in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005) and Susan Greenfield's 2121: A Tale from the Next Century (2013) 265 Eckart Voigts (Braunschweig)

IV BEYOND POSTMODERNISM: NEW FORMS OF STORYTELLING IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVELS

1. Auto/biographic Metafiction and Relational Lives: Antonia S. Byatt's The Biographer's Tale (2000) and J.M. Coetzee's Summertime (2009) as Paradigms of Meta-auto/biographies 283 Anne Rüggemeier (Freiburg)

2. Epistemological and Ontological Metafiction: Exploring the Nature of Truth and Being in Ali Smith's The Accidental (2005) and How to be both (2014) 297 Gesa Stedman (Berlin)

3. Hybridisation and Globalisation as Catalysts of Generic Change: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) and The Bone Clocks (2014) 311 Birgit Breidenbach (Warwick)