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Mary Shelley Wollostonecraft (1797-1851)

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Noveliste, editor, travel writer, married to P.B shelley.
«Frankenstein or the modern Promotheus» 1818 => sublime

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John Keats (1795-1821)

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Romantic poet from the 2nd gen. «To Autumn, 1819» or «Lamia»,1819

Negative capability
Capablity of humans to stay in unvertainties, awareness of the existence of parts we do not control

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: The pull of the past / Poem in ballad style

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Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

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Poet, satirist, romantic leading figure,
«Don juan, 1819», she walks in beauty, 1813

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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Older and more reclused than other romantic poets,
Helped to launch the romantic age with Samuel Taylor Coleridge with «Lyrical Ballads»
It defined the aesthetic of romantic literature.
«Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey»
«Crossing Simplon Pass» (pastoral, idealisation)

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William Blake (1757-1827)

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Poet, painter, printmarker, romantic. More exentric than the others.
«The lamb, the chimney sweeper, the little black boy» and such works

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Lyrical Ballads, 1798

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Wordsworth and Coleridge, published anonymously at first. (Many issues with add-ons)
Normative aspect, setting up rules of romantic language, simplicity, sincerity, the poet with a «special gift»

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Husband to Mary Shelley
Romantic writer:
«Mont Blanc»

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Neo-classicism vs romanticism

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  1. Order, symetry, regularity, rules, ancient models had authority, society is well-governed, academic training is the only way to be a good artist, gardens and landscapes kept under control, human reason and logic as measure of everything
  2. Freedom, originality, genius, feeling, past is mostly an object of aesthetic contemplation and inspo, a refuge. Individual freedom vs social constraints, intuition, imagination, introspection, myths, nature, symbolism, untouched nature, affective responses to it. The exotic, uncanny, supernatural are interesting.
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Edmund burke

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The picturesque and the Sublime
A philosophal enquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful (1757)

1790: Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Thomas Paine (1791)

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Rights of Man

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

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Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
Idem…of Woman (1792)

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Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)

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1745-1797
Interesting narrative

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Mary Prince (1831)

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History
Slve brought from Jamaica to England

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Queen Victoria

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1837-1901 : reign

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Matthew Arnold

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«Dover Beach», 1867
Victorian period

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Stuart Mill

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Victorian period optimistic

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John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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Art critic, criticism of social changes in the victorian period
Conservative

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Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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Critic, poet of the victorian period
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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Scottish writer from the victorian period, critical of industrialisation, antipathy against machines

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George Eliot (woman) (1819-)

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Victorian novel writer
Middlemarch (1871)
Very popular,with a male pseudonym
Realism

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Victorian period
Poet, painter and translator
«The Girlhood of Virgin Mary», with 2 sonnets
«The blessed Damozel», 1878
Member of the preraphaelite brotherhood (7 members)

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John Everett Millais

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Victorian period
Painter
Member of the pre raphaelite brotherhood

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William Holman Hunt

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Victorian period
Painter
Member of the pre raphaelite brotherhood

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The Germ

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Pre raphaelite magazine
Victorian period

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Charles dickens

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Criticism of the preraphaelite’s painting
Victorian period

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Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Victorian period
Aurora Leigh, 1856
«How do I love thee». Sonnet

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Christina Rossetti

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Preraphaelite wider circle, poet (goblin market, 1862)

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Charlotte Bronte

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Jane Eyre, 1847
Victorian period, novel, awareness of emancipatory movements

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Victorian Period
«The lady of Shalott», 1832

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Oscar Wilde

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Important victorian playwright
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1895
The Importance of being Earnest, 1895

Famous dandy figure, victorian period
«The Picture of Dorian Grey», 1890

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George Bernard Shaw
Dion Boucicauld

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Important victorian playwrights
The philanderer, 1893
The Octoroon, 1859

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Henrik Ibsen

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A Doll’s House => victorian play

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Sarah Stickney

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Victorian period
Conduct book on women
Realm of a woman = her home

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Coventry Patmore

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«The Angel in the House»
Victorian period (mid XIXe)
The angel as opposed to the fallen woman

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Amy Levy (Romance of a Shop, 1888)

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Example of the new woman in the victorian period, strive towards emancipation

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George Beau Brummell

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Associated with the dandy style in the victorian period

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Walter Pater (1839-1894)

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Victorian period
Aestheticism and decadence
«The Renaissance»

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

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Victorian period. Theme : imperialism and colonialism
«Heart of darkness» (1899) about congo, human psyche, etc

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Leopold II

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King of Belgium
Owned Congo (personnally)
Brutal regime there for its people

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Names of 4 british and irish modernists (20ieth century)

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James Joyce
Dh Lawrence
Wh Auden
Wb Yeats

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

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Modernist writer
Ms Dalloway, 1925
«Kew Gardens», 1919 (illustrated by Vanessa Bell, short story)

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T.S Eliot (1888-1965)

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Modernist writer, nobel prize winner
«The Love song of J. Alfred Prufroch», 1915

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T.E Hulme

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Modernism, british critic, 1924 : predicted modernism as a period of dry, hard, classical verse as contrasted to romantic litterature

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Ezra Pound

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modernist writer, example of visuality of modernist poetry
«A retrospect», 1918 (imagist poetry)
«In a station of the metro», 1916
«L’art», 1916

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Amy Lowell

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Example of the visuality of modernist poetry
«Opal», 1919

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James Joyce

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«Ulysses», 1922
Example for the concept of «stream of consciousness»

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William James

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American psychologist who introduced the term «stream of consciousness» in 1890 (useful to modernism)

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W.H. Auden

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Musée des beaux-Art, poem about Bruegel the elder’s painting : landscape with the fall of Icarus
Briding period btwn modernism and post modernisn (20ieth century)

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Post war drama

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Angry young men (50s)
Theatre of the Absurd : 50s-early 60s

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Samuel Backett (1906-1989)

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Irish novelist, playwright, etc
Theatre of the absurd
«Waiting for Godot», 1952

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Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
Tom Stoppard (1937-)

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Theatre of the absurd ?
English poets and playwrights
- The birthday party, 1957 / the homecoming, 1964
- Travesties, 1975 / Arcadia, 1993

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George Orwell
Aldous Huxley

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Landmarks of dystopian writing
1984, 1949
Brave New World, 1932

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Sam Selvon (triniad)
VS Naipaul (triniad)
Stuart Hall (jamaica)

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Authors of the windrush generation
- lonely londoners, 1956
..
Hall is a sociologist, research in cultural studies

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Andrea Levy

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Author, windrush gen ? Jamaican descent
«Small Island» 2004
«The Long Song» 2010

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Monica Ali

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Multicultural britain
Author of bangladeshi descent
«Brick Lane» 2003

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Salman Rushdie

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Magic realism, the twentieth century
«at the auction of the ruby slippers», 1994
British american novelist and essayist

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Examples of feminist literary studies (1960s-onwards)

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Elaine Showalter : A literature of their own, 1977
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar : The madwoman in the attic, 1979

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Angela Carter (1940-1992)

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Feminist writing + magic realism, XXc
- «The bloody chamber», 1979, retelling of european fairy tales. (Bluebeard,etc)
-«The magic toyshop», 1967

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Dereck Walcott (1930-2017)

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New literatures in english, XXe
From saint lucia, postcolonial literary theory :
Dream on Monkey Mountain, 1967
1964 : A far cry from Africa
1990: Omeros

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J.M. Coetzee (1940-)

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New literatures in english, XXe
Southafrican australian novelist
«waiting for the Barbarians», 1980

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Michael Ondaatje (1943-)

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Srilanka-canadian. Poet, fiction writer, etc and filmmaker
- In the skin of a lion (1987)

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018)

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New literatures in english, XXe
Trinidad and tobago, british.
Fiction and non fiction in english
«The Enigma of Arrival», 1987

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Kiran Desal

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The inheritance of loss, 2006
Subplot, in india, us

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British postmodernist authors (4)

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  • Julian Barnes. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
  • A. S. Byatt. Possession(1990)
  • Ian McEwan. Atonement(2001)
  • Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children (1981)
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Tom Stoppard

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«Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead», 1990
Example of intertextuality and intermediality
Adaptation of the classic «Hamlet», 1602
Postmodernism

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Jean Rhys

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Rewriting of Jane Eyre (1847) ==>
«Wide Sargasso Sea», 1966
Postmodernism

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Michael Cunningham

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The Hours, 1998
Spinoff, prequel or sequel example of Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Postmodernism

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John Fowles

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«The french lieutenant’s woman», 1969
Metafiction, postmodernism

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Daphne du Maurier

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«Rebecca», 1938 => novel that was adapted in various media forms during the XXe and in 2020 on netflix => the adaptations are postmodernist.

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Art Spiegelman

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Maus comics, 1980
Postmodernism example of the blurring of boundaries

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Jean-François Lyotard

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The postmodern condition, 1984
Critic of postmodernism, «all style, no substance ?»

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Jean Baudrillard

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Simulacre et simulation, 1981
Critique of postmodernism
«Copies of the copy only ?»
Concept of the hyperreal

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Frederic Jameson

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Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism, 1991
Critique of postmodernism
Discussion of pastiche vs parody, «pastiche is an emply parody»
Examples : the use of history in films

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Zadie Smith (1975-)

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British novelist, essayist
21st century
«White teeth», 2000
«The Lazy river», 2017-19

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Bernardine Evaristo (1959-)

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British Novelist, etc
21st century
Girl, woman, other (2019)
Crossing national, historical, generic boundaries

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  • Ali Smith (1962-)
  • A.L Kennedy (1965-)
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Scottish authors
- The accidental, 2005 (+ four seasons 2016-2020)
- Paradise, 2004, the little snake, 2018

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Julian Barnes (1946-)

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Writer and critic. Fascination with french literature and life. 21st century, also postmodernist
Flaubert’s parrot, 1984

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Ian Mcewan (1948-)

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Novelist and screenwriter (novels adapted to film) also postmodernist
Enduring love, 1997
Atonement, 2001
21st century

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Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

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British writer, historical fiction, about england
21st century. Grotesque, madness, etc
Thomas Cromwell series (2009-2020)
Every day is Mother’s day series (1985-6)

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John Lanchester

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Dystopias today, 21st century
The Wall, 2019

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