Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000

Name: Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000
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ISBN: 9780521660143

ISBN-10: 0521660149

ISBN-13: 9780521660143

Edition: 2002

Authors: Dominic Head

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In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Heads study is the most exhaustive survey of post-war British fiction available. It includes chapters on the state and the novel, class and social change, gender and sexual identity, national identity and multiculturalism. Throughout Head places novels in their social and historical context. He highlights the emergence and prominence of particular genres and links these developments to the wider cultural context. He also provides provocative readings of important individual…

Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/7/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.33" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The state and the novel: The post-war wilderness


The testing of liberal humanism


The sixties and social revolution


The post-consensus novel


Intimations of social collapse


After Thatcher



Class and social change: 'The movement'


Anger and working-class fiction


Education and class loyalty


The formal challenge of class


The waning of class consciousness


The rise of the middle class


The rise of the underclass


The realignment of the middle class


The role of the intellectual



Gender and sexual identity: Out of the bird-cage


Second-wave feminism


Post-feminism


Repression in gay fiction



National identity: Reinventing Englishness


The colonial legacy


The Troubles


Irishness extended


Welsh resistance


The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness


Beyond the Isles?



Multicultural personae: Jewish-British writing


The empire within


'Windrush' and after: dislocation confronted


The quest for a settlement


Ethnic identity and literary form


Putting down roots


Rushdie's broken mirror


Towards post-nationalism



Country and suburbia: The death of the nature novel


The re-evaluation of pastoral


The post-pastoral novel


The country and the city


Trouble in suburbia


Embracing the suburban experience



Beyond 2000: Realism and experimentalism


Technology and the new science


Towards the new confessional


The fallacy of the new


A broken truth: Murdoch and morality


Notes


Bibliography