The Last of England? 1960-2000:

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ISBN: 9780198184232

ISBN-10: 0198184239

ISBN-13: 9780198184232

Edition: 2004

Authors: Randall Stevenson

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English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the 60s, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As well as comprehensively charting these changes in the literary field, Randall Stevenson persuasively pinpoints their origins in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times. Literary developments are revealingly related to the wider evolution and…

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/8/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 644
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.86" long x 1.51" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



General Editor's Preface


List of Figures


A Note on References


Introduction: Last Things First



Histories



'Gleaming Twilight': Literature, Culture, and Society



A Postmodern Age? Literature, Ideas, and Traditions



The End of the Modern



Modernist and Other Legacies



An Age of Theory? Critics, Readers, and Authors



A Golden Age? Readers, Authors, and the Book Trade



The More Common Reader



Commerce and Conscience, Ledgers and Literature



Poetry



Movement or Revival: The Late 1950s to the 1980s



Counter-movements and Modernist Memories: 1960 to the 1980s



Politics and Postmodernism: The Late 1970s to 2000



Rosebay Revived: Language, Form, and Audience for 'This Unpopular Art'



Drama



A Public Art Form: The Late 1950s to the 1970s



Last Year in Jerusalem: Politics and Performance after 1968



'Real Revolutionaries': Politics and the Margins



Absurdism, Postmodernism, Individualism



Discovering the Body



Revolution, Television, Subsidy



Narrative



To the Crossroads: Style and Society in the 1960s and 1970s



A Darker Route: Morality and History in the 1960s and 1970s



Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible: The 1970s to 2000



'Double Lives': Women's Writing and Gender Difference



'The Century of Strangers': Travellers and Migrants



Genres, Carnivals, Conclusions


Author Bibliographies


Suggestions for Further Reading


Works Cited


Index