Forecasts of the past: globalisation, history, realism, utopia

Abstract

Preface: whatever happened to realism? -- Introduction: only connect globalisation and the problem of realism -- Methodological problems of the strike novel: the case of gb84 -- "Edging back into awareness": realisms of the globalised city -- Regeneration: the historical novel after postmodernism -- Maurice Gee's marginal realism -- Conclusion: realism in the valley of its saying