British literature in transition, 1980-2000 : accelerated times /
The literature of twentieth-century Britain's final twenty years represent a crash course in transitional history. In the aftermath of the 1970s, the nation's hopes of becoming more efficient were high, leading to the fundamental domestic shake-up that was Margaret Thatcher's neoliber...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Transitions. The ends of postmodernism / Peter Boxall
- Historical fiction and political regeneration / Dougal Mcneill
- Strategies of survival in experimental poetry / Luke Roberts
- Dramatic evolutions/bodily violations / Nadine Holdsworth
- No such thing as society: the novel under neoliberalism / Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene
- Part II: Nation. Black British writing: from gulags to ships / Henghameh Saroukhani
- Working-class writing and the decline of class consciousness / Nick Bentley
- Northern radical theatre and community performance / Phil O'Brien
- "Pit closure as art": poetry from the North of England / James Underwood
- The road to Tollund: Northern Ireland's literature of transformation / Richard Kirkland
- Entangled (k)nots: reconceptualizing the nation in Scottish devolution writing / Carla Sassi
- Part III: Society. Inter-feminism/s: women writing back to the future / Diana Wallace
- The rise of ladlit and chicklit / Imelda Whelehan
- "A gay story, a history": gay male liberation and queer rumination / Allan Johnson
- "Searching for something": the post-secular faiths of British fiction / Andrew Tate
- Dystopia and euphoria: time-space compression and the city / Alexander Beaumont
- Part IV: Acceleration. Coded networks: literature and the information technology revolution / Anna Mcfarlane
- Nature's history? Environmentalism and the nature novel / John Parham
- Like any other commodity? Literary prize culture, commercialization, and the rise of a new reading public / Caroline Edwards
- Making sense of the world: literature and globalisation / Philip Leonard.