Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel

Stephen Ross is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is Past-President of the Modernist Studies Association (2015/16), General Editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Online and co-editor (with Derek Ryan) of The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (Bloomsbury, 2018).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One – Angry(-ish) Young(-ish) Men: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Absolute BeginnersChapter Two – Can the Skinhead Speak? A Clockwork OrangeChapter Three – Youth Culture Goes Metastatic: The Rachel Papers and The Buddha of SuburbiaChapter Four – Sojourn in Babylon: The Commitments, Brixton Rock, and East of Acre LaneChapter Five – Rave and Heroin: TrainspottingWorks CitedIndex

Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is a lively contribution to a growing area of postwar and contemporary literary studies. Ross’s style is at once accessible and engaging, and his book offers new ways of thinking about the importance of youth culture to a range of novels from the latter half of the twentieth century.