1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction?Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary.Chapters outline the decade's diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Ian Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. Tying the popularity of Angela Carter and Fay Weldon to the growth of the Women's Liberation Movement and calling attention to a new interest in documentary modes of autobiographical writing, this volume also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of 1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers.Against a backdrop of social tensions, this major critical reassessment of the 1970s defines, explores and better understands the criticism and fiction of a decade marked by the sense of endings.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-02-27
Mått156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt587 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDecades Series
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441133915

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Nick Hubble is Reader in English at Brunel University London, UK and the co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013), The 1970s (2014), The 1990s (2015), The 2000s (2015) and London in Contemporary British Fiction (2016) all published by Bloomsbury.John McLeod is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK.Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

Series Editors’ Preface AcknowledgementsContributors Introduction: Britain in the 1970s - Controversies and CulturesNick Hubble, John McLeod and Philip Tew 1 Selective Traditions: Refreshing the Literary History of the SeventiesMark P. Williams 2 The Ordinariness of the Extraordinary Break-Up of BritainNick Hubble 3 1970s Feminist FictionSonya Andermahr 4 Black British Culture and Fiction in the 1970sJohn McLeod 5 ‘This Time It’s Personal’: Reliving and Rewriting History in 1970s FictionSam Goodman 6 Turbulent Times: Conflicts, Ideology and the Experimental British Novel, 1969–1979Philip Tew7 Fiction, Representation and the Contemporary British Novel: A Story of the American Reception of British Novels of the 1970sDoryjane Birrer8 Melancholy Interest: J. G. Farrell’s Troubles and thePolitics of PerspectiveTimeline of WorksTimeline of National EventsTimeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index