This is the 3rd edition of a landmark work of literary and cultural analysis
- It includes a new introduction by the author, bringing the argument up-to-date
- As one of a new series, Classic Criticism, it will appeal to the literary studies market.
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Review:
'this book is astonishingly refreshing...Sinfield has done many things here, but one outstanding achievement of his new work is to help any student looking into contextual literary study that 'background' is often a bundle of multiple sources of textual meanings. Any superficial look into it is dangerous.'
The Lecturer
'A remarkable account’
Fredric Jameson
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note on notes
A new introduction - Ideology and Commitment: A Personal Account
Foreword to the Second Edition
The Politics and Cultures of discord (1997)
1. Introduction
2. War stories
3. Literature and cultural production
4. Class/culture/welfare
5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment
6. Freedom and the Cold War
7. Cultural plunder and the savage within
8. Making a scene
9. Reinventing Modernism
10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath
11. The rise of Left-culturism
12. Intellectuals and workers
13. The ways we live now
List of books and articles cited
Indexes
- It includes a new introduction by the author, bringing the argument up-to-date
- As one of a new series, Classic Criticism, it will appeal to the literary studies market.
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Review:
'this book is astonishingly refreshing...Sinfield has done many things here, but one outstanding achievement of his new work is to help any student looking into contextual literary study that 'background' is often a bundle of multiple sources of textual meanings. Any superficial look into it is dangerous.'
The Lecturer
'A remarkable account’
Fredric Jameson
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note on notes
A new introduction - Ideology and Commitment: A Personal Account
Foreword to the Second Edition
The Politics and Cultures of discord (1997)
1. Introduction
2. War stories
3. Literature and cultural production
4. Class/culture/welfare
5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment
6. Freedom and the Cold War
7. Cultural plunder and the savage within
8. Making a scene
9. Reinventing Modernism
10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath
11. The rise of Left-culturism
12. Intellectuals and workers
13. The ways we live now
List of books and articles cited
Indexes







