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The Cambridge introduction to modern British fiction, 1950-2000 / Dominic Head.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: viii, 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521660149
  • 9780521660143
  • 0521669669
  • 9780521669665
Other title:
  • Cambridge introduction to modern British fiction, nineteen fifty-two thousand
  • Cambridge introduction to modern British fiction, 1950 to 2000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.91409 21
LOC classification:
  • PR881 .H43 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. 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 -- Ch. 2. 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 Underclass. The Realignment of the Middle Class. The Role of the Intellectual -- Ch. 3. Gender and Sexual Identity. Out of the Bird-Cage. Second-Wave Feminism. Post-Feminism. Repression in Gay Fiction -- Ch. 4. National Identity. Reinventing Englishness. The Colonial Legacy. The Troubles. Irishness Extended. Welsh Resistance. The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness. Beyond the Isles? -- Ch. 5. 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 -- Ch. 6. Country and Suburbia. The Death of the Nature Novel. The Re-evaluation of Pastoral. The Post-Pastoral Novel. The Country in the City. Trouble in Suburbia. Embracing the Suburban Experience -- Ch. 7. 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.
Summary: "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. Head's 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 novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. Accessible, wide-ranging and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. It will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298) and index.

Ch. 1. 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 -- Ch. 2. 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 Underclass. The Realignment of the Middle Class. The Role of the Intellectual -- Ch. 3. Gender and Sexual Identity. Out of the Bird-Cage. Second-Wave Feminism. Post-Feminism. Repression in Gay Fiction -- Ch. 4. National Identity. Reinventing Englishness. The Colonial Legacy. The Troubles. Irishness Extended. Welsh Resistance. The 'Possible Dance' of Scottishness. Beyond the Isles? -- Ch. 5. 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 -- Ch. 6. Country and Suburbia. The Death of the Nature Novel. The Re-evaluation of Pastoral. The Post-Pastoral Novel. The Country in the City. Trouble in Suburbia. Embracing the Suburban Experience -- Ch. 7. 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.

"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. Head's 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 novelists, particularly those who remain staple reference points in the study of the subject. Accessible, wide-ranging and designed specifically for use on courses, this is the most current introduction to the subject available. It will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike."--Publisher description.

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