TY - BOOK AU - Guignery,Vanessa TI - The Way We Live Now: Jonathan Coe’s Re-evaluation of Political Satire PY - 2015///. N1 - 80 N2 - This paper examines Jonathan Coe’s œuvre to discuss the evolution of his modes of portraying contemporary Britain. While Coe is well known for his satirical state-of-the-nation novels and for his commitment to political fiction, his recent essays reveal his misgivings about the effectiveness of political satire and Condition-of-England novels in the new millennium. This paper will navigate between Coe’s fiction and non-fiction to examine the forms political engagement may take in the contemporary British novel UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-etudes-anglaises-2015-2-page-156?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -