The 1980s a decade of contemporary British fiction
Machine generated contents note:Series Introduction Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson \ Volume Introduction Philip Tew, Leigh Wilson and Joe Brooker \ Notes on Contributors \ 1. Bombs, Kidnappings and Yuppies: The Literary History of the Decade Emily Horton \ 2. Thatcherism and Literature Jos...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney
Bloomsbury
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | The decades series
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:Series Introduction Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson \ Volume Introduction Philip Tew, Leigh Wilson and Joe Brooker \ Notes on Contributors \ 1. Bombs, Kidnappings and Yuppies: The Literary History of the Decade Emily Horton \ 2. Thatcherism and Literature Joseph Brooker \ 3. The Awakening of Caledonias? Scottish Literature in the 1980s Monica Germana \ 4. Black British Women's Fiction in the 1980s Susan Alice Fischer \ 5. From the Heritage Act to Radical Historiography: History in the 1980s Alex Murray \ 6. Generic Discontinuities and Variations in Fiction of the 1980s Frederick M. Holmes \ 7. British novels of 1980s: International Contexts Jung Su \ Timeline \ Brief Biographies \ Bibliography \ Index. "How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 264 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781350005396 978-1-350-00539-6 144112649X 1-4411-2649-X 9781441126498 978-1-4411-2649-8 9781474227742 978-1-4742-2774-2 |