British literature in transition, 1980-2000 : accelerated times / edited by Eileen Pollard, Manchester Metropolitan University ; Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollard, Eileen, editor.

Schoene-Harwood, Berthold, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Great Britain.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Transitions: 1. The ends of postmodernism Peter Boxall; 2. Historical fiction and political regeneration Dougal Mcneill; 3. Strategies of survival in experimental poetry Luke Roberts; 4. Dramatic evolutions/bodily violations Nadine Holdsworth; 5. No such thing as society: the novel under neoliberalism Eileen Pollard and Berthold Schoene; Part II. Nation: 6. Black British writing: from gulags to ships Henghameh Saroukhani; 7. Working-class writing and the decline of class consciousness Nick Bentley; 8. Northern radical theatre and community performance Phil O'brien; 9. Pit closure as art: poetry from the North of England James Underwood; 10. The road to Tollund: Northern Ireland's literature of transformation Richard Kirkland; 11. Entangled (k)nots: reconceptualizing the nation in Scottish devolution writing Carla Sassi; Part III. Society: 12. Inter-feminism/s: women writing back to the future Diana Wallace; 13. The rise of ladlit and chicklit Imelda Whelehan; 14. A gay story, a history: gay male liberation and queer rumination Allan Johnson; 15. Searching for something: the post-secular faiths of British fiction Andrew Tate; 16. Dystopia and euphoria: time-space compression and the city Alexander Beaumont; Part IV. Acceleration: 17. Coded networks: literature and the information technology revolution Anna Mcfarlane; 18. Nature's history: environmentalism and the nature novel John Parham; 19. Like any other commodity? Literary prize culture, commercialization, and the rise of a new reading public Caroline Edwards; 20. Making sense of the world: literature and globalization Philip Leonard.

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Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108651585

1108651585

Publisher Number:

40028825924

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