British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Kaye Mitchell, Nonia Williams, University of Manchester) Mitchell, Kaye (Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Director of the Centre for New Writing, University of East Anglia) Williams, Nonia (Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature

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Explores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis collection showcases the liveliness of British avant-garde fiction of the 1960s, which is diverse in its aesthetic practices and (sometimes) divided in its politics. It brings together a selection of original, research-led essays on more than a dozen avant-garde British writers of the 1960s, revealing this to be a crucial – and crucially overlooked – period of British literary history. Via detailed readings of authors such as Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Alexander Trocchi, Maureen Duffy, Alan Burns, Christine Brooke-Rose and many others, the contributors reveal the diversity of material produced in this period and trace the complex relations of influence and indebtedness between the 60s avant-garde, earlier modernisms and later postmodern writing. The volume shows that the 1960s is an even more vibrant period of literary experiment in Britain than might previously have been supposed – and that the avant-garde fiction produced then rewards our renewed attention to it. Key Features:Provides much-needed critical analyses of the work of 60s avant-garde writers Offers focused essays – each presents one author in their cultural/critical/historical contexts – by experts in the fieldRecuperates a lost decade in British literature and thus fills a vital gap in literary history, between late modernism and early postmodernismResponds to burgeoning critical and popular interest in authors such as Christine Brooke-Rose, Ann Quin, and B.S. Johnson, and to a widespread interest in experimental and innovative writing more generally

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Utgivningsdatum2019-02-11
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt574 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474436199

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Kaye Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. She has published three monographs, most recently Writing Shame: Contemporary Literature, Gender and Negative Affect (2020). Her editorial publications include a collection of essays on the British author Sarah Waters (2013), a special issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) on experimental women’s writing, and a co-edited collection of essays (with Nonia Williams), British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (2019). Kaye is the UK editor of the journal Contemporary Women’s Writing, is on the editorial board of Open Gender in Germany and C21 in the UK, and is a series editor of Bloomsbury’s ‘Contemporary Critical Perspectives’ series. Nonia Williams is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. Recent publications include ‘(Re)turning to Quin: An Introduction’ in Women: A Cultural Review (2022); ‘“Designing its Own Shadow”: tracing Ann Quin’s reiterative experimental processes’ (2021); ‘About/Of Madness: Ann Quin's The Unmapped Country’ in Textual Practice (2020) and British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (EUP, 2019).

Introduction: ‘The avant-garde must not be romanticized. The avant-garde must not be dismissed’, Kaye MitchellMuriel Spark and the possibility of popular experiment, Marina McKayB.S. Johnson: the book as dynamic object’, Joseph DarlingtonGiles Gordon: Beyond the Words, and beyond the language of experimentalism, David HucklesbyBrigid Brophy’s aestheticism: the camp anti-novel, Len GutkinAlexander Trocchi: Man at leisure, Christopher WebbOpen Access: Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’, Hannah Van HoveJ.G. Ballard: Visuality and the novels of the near future, Natalie FerrisAnn Quin: ‘infuriating’ experiments?, Nonia WilliamsContradiction, Incongruity and Fragmentation: Political and Avant-Garde Compromise in the Work of Alan Burns, Kieran DevaneyEva Figes: tracing the survival of a ‘poetry of the inarticulate’, Chris ClarkeChristine Brooke-Rose: the development of experiment, Stephanie JonesAspirations inevitably failing: hope and negativity in Rayner Heppenstall’s experimental fiction of the 1960s, Philip TewMaureen Duffy: the politics of experimental fiction, Eveline KilianNot the Last Word on the Sixties Avant Garde: An Afterword, Glyn WhiteIndex