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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, Deux mille quatre cent quarante (1771)|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)]].
*[[2007-08 AM Zadie Smith's Multicultural World|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)]].

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