Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “My Heart Really Goes Out to Me”: The Self-indulgent Highway to Adulthood in The Rachel Papers

Chapter 3 Looking-glass Worlds in Martin Amis’s Early Fiction: Reflectiveness, Mirror Narcissism, and Doubles

Chapter 4 The Passion of John Self: Allegory, Economy, and Expenditure in Martin Amis’s Money

Chapter 5 Money Makes the Man: Gender and Sexuality in Martin Amis’s Money

Chapter 6 Martin Amis and Late-twentieth-century Working-class Masculinity: Money and London Fields

Chapter 7 The Female Form, Sublimation, and Nicola Six

Chapter 8 Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime

Chapter 9 Under the Dark Sun of Melancholia: Writing and Loss in The Information

Chapter 11 W(h)ither Postmodernism: Late Amis

Chapter 12 J.G. Ballard’s “Inner Space” and the Early Fiction of Martin Amis

Chapter 13 A Reluctant Leavisite: Martin Amis’s “Higher Journalism”

Chapter 14 Nonfiction by Martin Amis, 1971–2005