How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the "swinging decade": a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of…mehr
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the "swinging decade": a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.
Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival held at Brunel. James Riley is Fellow and College Lecturer in English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK. Melanie Seddon is an independent researcher specialising in British post-war literature and culture. She was formerly based at the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in 20th-century literature.
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Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Surfing the Sixties: A Critical Introduction Philip Tew (Brunel University, UK), James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) and Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK) 1. Our Troubled Youth: A Literary History of the 1960s Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK) 2. The Housewife and the Single Girl as Archetypes in Satirical Novels of the 1960s Joseph Darlington (University of Salford, UK) 3. British Women's Fiction of the 1960s Tracey Hargreaves (University of Leeds, UK) 4. Certain Circles: Gay Fiction and Cultural Attitudes of the 1960s Yvonne Salmon (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British Writing Graham Riach (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. The 1960s Existential Fiction of John Fowles Michelle Phillips Buchberger (Miami University, USA) 7. Experimental British Fiction of the Sixties: Five Meta-modern Novelists Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) 8. Inner Space Odyssey: Suburban Spaceman and the Cults of Catastrophe James Reich (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, USA) 9. Terminal Data: J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and the Fiction of the Decade's End James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index
Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Surfing the Sixties: A Critical Introduction Philip Tew (Brunel University, UK), James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) and Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK) 1. Our Troubled Youth: A Literary History of the 1960s Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK) 2. The Housewife and the Single Girl as Archetypes in Satirical Novels of the 1960s Joseph Darlington (University of Salford, UK) 3. British Women's Fiction of the 1960s Tracey Hargreaves (University of Leeds, UK) 4. Certain Circles: Gay Fiction and Cultural Attitudes of the 1960s Yvonne Salmon (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British Writing Graham Riach (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. The 1960s Existential Fiction of John Fowles Michelle Phillips Buchberger (Miami University, USA) 7. Experimental British Fiction of the Sixties: Five Meta-modern Novelists Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK) 8. Inner Space Odyssey: Suburban Spaceman and the Cults of Catastrophe James Reich (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, USA) 9. Terminal Data: J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and the Fiction of the Decade's End James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index
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