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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825303903321

Autore

Sinfield Alan

Titolo

Literature, politics and culture in postwar Britain / / Alan Sinfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2004, c1997

ISBN

1-4411-8559-3

1-283-12303-7

9786613123039

1-4411-7913-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 pages)

Collana

Continuum impacts

Classic criticism series

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - Influence

Great Britain Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by the Athlone Press, 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.