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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Bran Nicol, University of Surrey
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodern Fiction
    Published online:
    07 August 2025
    Print publication:
    21 August 2025, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    This chapter opens the collection by challenging the widespread assumptions that postmodernism is over as a literary period, and waning in its value as a critical framework. While we have moved beyond the late-twentieth century ‘peak’ period of postmodernism, its legacy continues to actually quite a notable degree in contemporary British fiction, and postmodernism remains a valuable paradigm to anyone seeking to make sense of prominent currents within twentieth- and twenty-first century British fiction.