The Amises, tradition, and influence: genealogical dissent
Brief anecdotal history: the mid-1980s and mid-1990s
Tradition, influence, and anxiety
Realism and revaluation
I: Critical cartography: charting the artistic allegiances
1. The Amises on American literature: Nabokov, Bellow, Roth
Vladimir Nabokov: style as morality
Saul Bellow: prophetic realism
Philip Roth: egocentric narration
2. The Amises on English literature: Austen, Waugh, Larkin
Jane Austen: mannered morality
Evelyn Waugh: decline and fall
Philip Larkin: the comedy of candor
II: Influence and intersection: the interplay of individual works
3. The Amises on comedy: Lucky Jim and the Rachel papers
Lucky Jim: cultural and generational conflict
The Rachel papers: revaluative inversion and critique
"The two Amises"
4. The Amises on satire: ending up and dead babies
Henry Fielding and Horatian satire
Mikhail Bakhtin and menippean satire
Characterization and closure
5. The Amises on realism and postmodernism: Stanley and the women and money: a suicide note
Chauvinism, feminism, and misogyny
The autobiographical abyss: Jake's thing and Stanley and the women
Revaluative reminism? Money, misogyny, and doubling
The Amises, realism, and postmodernism
Revaluative realism: money and metamimesis
6. The Amises on love, death, and children: the letters of Kinsley Amis and experience: a memoir
Higher autobiography: experience, midlife crisis, and the unconscious
Personal realignment: hilly redux
Professional realignment: the old devils
Personal realignment: experience
Projecting a future: the Amises, genealogical dissent, and the British novel since 1950
Whither and novel? Realism, postmodernism, and beyond
After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the event horizons of fiction
Professional realignment? Love, children, and night train.