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The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction de Professor Philip Tew

The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction: The Decades Series

Editat de Professor Philip Tew, Dr James Riley, Dr Melanie Seddon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iul 2018
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the "swinging decade": a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers.A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350011687
ISBN-10: 1350011681
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 2 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Decades Series

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Writers covered include J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul

Notă biografică

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival held at Brunel.James Riley is Fellow and College Lecturer in English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK.Melanie Seddon is an independent researcher specialising in British post-war literature and culture. She was formerly based at the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in 20th-century literature.

Cuprins

Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsSurfing the Sixties: A Critical IntroductionPhilip Tew (Brunel University, UK), James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) and Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK)1. Our Troubled Youth: A Literary History of the 1960sMelanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK)2. The Housewife and the Single Girl as Archetypes in Satirical Novels of the 1960sJoseph Darlington (University of Salford, UK)3. British Women's Fiction of the 1960sTracey Hargreaves (University of Leeds, UK)4. Certain Circles: Gay Fiction and Cultural Attitudes of the 1960sYvonne Salmon (University of Cambridge, UK)5. Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British WritingGraham Riach (University of Cambridge, UK)6. The 1960s Existential Fiction of John FowlesMichelle Phillips Buchberger (Miami University, USA)7. Experimental British Fiction of the Sixties: Five Meta-modern NovelistsPhilip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)8. Inner Space Odyssey: Suburban Spaceman and the Cults of CatastropheJames Reich (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, USA)9. Terminal Data: J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and the Fiction of the Decade's EndJames Riley (University of Cambridge, UK)Timeline of WorksTimeline of National EventsTimeline of International EventsBiographies of WritersIndex

Recenzii

These essays explore 1960s British fiction within the historical and cultural context of the decade to convey why the selected works were influential at the time and why they continue to give insight into postwar and postcolonial Britain . Features include three helpful timelines: major works of the 1960s, key national events, and significant international events. Revisiting the richness of 1960s British fiction gives new insights into the life and changing culture of the time, particularly for those who did not experience this exuberant decade first-hand.