Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Amises, Tradition, and Influence: Genealogical Dissent -- Brief Anecdotal History: The Mid-1980s and Mid-1990s -- Tradition, Influence, and Anxiety -- Realism and Revaluation -- PART 1. 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 -- PART 2. 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 Feminism? 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 Kingsley 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 -- Conclusion: Projecting a Future: The Amises, Genealogical Dissent, and the British Novel since 1950 -- Whither the Novel? Realism, Postmodernism, and Beyond.

After Kingsley: Martin Amis and the Event Horizons of Fiction -- Professional Realignment? Love, Children, and Night Train -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.