Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 332 pages)
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Illustration
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781350011717
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9781350011700
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9781350011694
Series Statement:
The decades series
Content:
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Surfing the Sixties: Critical introduction / Philip Tew, James Riley and Melanie Seddon --- Our troubled youth: A literary history of the 1960s / Melanie Seddon -- The housewife and the single girl as archetypes in satirical novels of the 1960s / Joseph Darlington -- British women's fiction of the 1960s / Tracy Hargreaves -- Certain circles: Gay fiction and cultural attitudes of the 1960s / Yvonne Salmon -- Ways of staying, ways of saying: From Black writing in Britain to Black British writing / Graham K. Riach -- The 1960s existential fiction of John Fowles / Michelle Phillips Buchberger -- Experimental British fiction of the Sixties: Five meta-modern novelists / Philip Tew -- Inner space odyssey: Suburban spacemen and the cults of catastrophe / James Reich -- Terminal data: J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and the fiction of the decade's end / James Riley
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350011687
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The 1960s London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 9781350011687
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Roman
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Geschichte 1960-1969
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.5040/9781350011717
