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Gender Relations

• J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1999).

Creating the Future

• Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
• Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred, [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper, vol. 1 (London: G. Robinson, 1772).
• Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826).
• Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
• H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895).

Creating the Past

Sexuality

• John Cleland, Fanny Hill (1749).
• Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004).

Religion

• Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
• Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).
• Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights (2006).

The First Person

• Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001).

Arthurian Literature and Movies

• Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (1485).
• John Dryden, King Arthur (1691), opera composed by Henry Purcell.
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1856-1885).
• Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
• Knights of the Round Table (USA, 1953), film directed by Richard Thorpe
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
• First Knight (1995), film directed by Richard Thorpe

Utopias and Distopias

Women Authors

• Aphra Behn, Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1684-1687).
• A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).

Postmodern Fiction

• Robert Coover, Pricksongs & Descants (1969). (collection of short stories)
• John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969).
• A.L Kennedy, Looking for the Possible Dance (1993).
• Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
• Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001).
• Nicola Barker, Darkmans (2007).

Postcolonial Fiction

• Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958).
• Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981).
• Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage (1985).
• V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections (1987).
• Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997).

Campus and Academic

• Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945).
• Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957).
• David Lodge, Small World: An Academic Romance (1984).
• Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985).
• A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).
• Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005).

Adolescence

• Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985).
• Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
• Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993).
• Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love (1995).
• DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little (2003).
• Jonathan Trigell, Boy A (2004).

Representations of London

• Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).
• Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
• Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head (1961).
• Peter Ackroy, Hawksmoor (1985).
• Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).

The British Museum Reading Room

• George Gissing, New Grub Street (1881).
• David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965).
• A.S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance (1990).

Magical Realism in English

• Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977).
• Graham Swift, Waterland (1983).
• Peter Carey, Illywhacker (1985).
• Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989).
• Ben Okri, The Famished Road (1991).
• Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).

Robinson Crusoe and Variations

• Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719).
• J. M. Coetzee, Foe (1986).
• Castaway, Dir. Robert Zemeckis (2000).
• Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001).