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The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Contributor(s): Bentley, Nick (Editor), Ferrebe, Alice (Editor), Wilson, Leigh (Editor)
ISBN: 1350011517     ISBN-13: 9781350011519
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $198.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 823.914
LCCN: 2018007004
Series: Decades
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.32 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Ferrebe, Alice: - Alice Ferrebe is Subject Leader for English at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is the author of Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000 (2005).Bentley, Nick: -

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University, UK.
He is author of Contemporary
British Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2008); Radical Fictions:
The English Novel in the 1950s (Peter Lang, 2007); and editor of British
Fiction of the 1990s (Routledge, 2005).

Hubble, Nick: - Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, London, UK.Tew, Philip: - Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.Wilson, Leigh: -

Leigh Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster, UK.