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Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Muriel Spark's Grammars of Assent; J.Little - Rough Magic and Moral Toughness: Iris Murdoch's Fictional Universe; J.Fletcher - Doris Lessing's Beautiful Impossible Blueprints; J.Harris - The Expatriate Experience: the Novels of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Paul Scott; Y.Gooneratne - John Fowles and the Fiction of Freedom; L.St John Butler - The Small Worlds of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge; J.Acheson - Contemporary Irish Women Novelists; J.Dunleavy & R.Lynch - The Historical Imagination in William Golding's Later Fiction; J.Gindin - Patchwork and Patterns: The Condition of England in Margaret Drabble's Later Novels; G.Cunningham - Essential Imaginings: the Novels of Angela Carter and Russell Hoban; D.Punter - Redeeming the Time: the Novels of John McGahern and John Banville; T.Brown - 'Unconfessed Confessions': the Narrators of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes; D.L.Higdon - The New Internationalism: Shiva Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Buchi Emecheta, Timothy Mo and Kazuo Ishiguro; B.King - Index