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Father
and Son
Kingsley Amis, Martin
Amis, and the British Novel since 1950
Gavin Keulks
"Father and Son will be important to specialists
in the field as well as to students of the twentieth-century
novel generally. It provides the only extended treatment of a
unique literary genealogy."
—James Diedrick, Albion College
Now also in paperback, this innovative study of two of England's
most popular, controversial, and influential writers breaks new
ground in examining the relationship between Kingsley Amis and
his son, Martin Amis. Through intertextual readings of their
essays and novels, Gavin Keulks examines how the Amises' work
negotiated the boundaries of their personal relationship while
claiming territory in the literary debate between mimesis and
modernist aesthetics. Theirs was a battle over the nature of
reality itself, a twentieth-century realism war conducted by
loving family members and rival, antithetical writers. Keulks
argues that the Amises' relationship functioned as a source of
literary inspiration and that their work illuminates many of
the structural and stylistic shifts that have characterized the
British novel since 1950.
"Keulks' book is holding and absorbing, filled with excellently
shrewd and steady analysis of selected novels, essays and interviews
set in the context of the status and future of the realistic
novel, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the
existential condition of post-World War II life."
—Dale Salwak, Citrus College
Gavin Keulks
is professor of English at Western Oregon University.
For more information contact
our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu |
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FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
January 2005
LC: 2003007228 PR
336 pp. 6 x 9
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