The 1950s : A Decade of Modern British Fiction Hardback
Edited by Nick (Keele University, UK) Bentley, Dr Alice (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Ferrebe, Dr Nick (Brunel University, London, UK) Hubble
Part of the The Decades Series series
Hardback
Description
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown.
Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture.
Chapters cover the rise of the ‘Angry Young Men’, an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E.
R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V.
S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J.
R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/09/2018
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- ISBN:9781350011519
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/09/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350011519
