| Title | Will Self and Contemporary British Society |
| Author | Graham Matthews |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| ISBN | 1137486554, 9781137486554 |
This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self’s work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella .
| Acknowledgments | vi |
| List of Abbreviations | vii |
| Introduction: ‘The Magus of the Quotidian’ | 1 |
| 1. ‘This Great Torrent of Verbiage’: Will Self and the Satirists | 13 |
| 2. ‘The Unfailing Regularity of Dr Busner’: Will Self and the Psychiatrists | 38 |
| 3. ‘These Artisans of the Body’: Will Self and the Doctors | 69 |
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4. ‘Fucking and Fighting’: Will Self and Gender
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90 |
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5. ‘A Psyche Available for Product Placement’: Will Self and Consumption
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114 |
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6. ‘Dissolving the Mechanised Matrix’: Will Self and Psychogeography
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138 |
| Notes | 173 |
| Bibliography | 183 |
| Index | 190 |
