Literature of the 1950s : good, brave causes /
Challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period. Alice Ferrebe's lively study rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics of difference, as ideas about id...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2012.
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Colección: | Edinburgh history of twentieth-century literature in Britain ;
v. 6. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Chapter One Introduction: 'All this, and Everest too!'; I. The Voice of the Young; Chapter Two The Metaphorical Utility of Youth; Chapter Three First Writing: 1950s Fiction; Chapter Four Angering Aunt Edna: 1950s Theatre; II. The Less Deceived; Chapter Five Women, Children and Home; Chapter Six The Sensation of Movement: Poetry in the 1950s; Chapter Seven Evil Men: Literature and Homosexuality; III. Postwar Settlements; Chapter Eight Coming Home: The Literature of Immigration.