an introduction to literature and society, 1945-1999 /
edited by Alistair Davies and Alan Sinfield
x, 211 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Disunited kingdom : Irish, Scottish and Welsh writing in the postwar period / Siobhán Kilfeather -- Migration and mutability : the twice born fiction of Salman Rushdie / Minoli Salgado -- After feminism : Pat Barker, Penelope Lively and the contemporary novel / Margaretta Jolly -- Culture, consensus and difference : Angus Wilson to Alan Hollinghurst / Alan Sinfield -- A cinema in between : postwar British cinema / Alistair Davies -- Faltering at the line : Auden and postwar British culture / Alistair Davies -- Art in postwar Britain : a short history of the ICA / Nannette Aldred -- Drama in the culture industry : British theatre after 1945 / Drew Milne -- Resting on laurels / Andrew Crozier
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This work should be a helpful starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain during the second half of the 20th century. Chapters on individual people and art forms give an overview of the progression of different genres at the time
English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century
Social problems in literature
World War, 1939-1945-- Great Britain-- Literature and the war