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British Fictions of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade (Continuum Literary Studies)
Dr Sebastian Groes
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Description for British Fictions of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade (Continuum Literary Studies)
Hardcover. From television documentaries and a steady output of critical works to retrospective art exhibitions and Austin Powers, the sixties fascinate us. This book focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as ... Read more
British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780826495570
SKU
V9780826495570
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About Dr Sebastian Groes
Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the editor series editor of Bloomsbury’s Contemporary Critical Perspectives series, the editor of Ian McEwan (2013), and co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro (2009) and Julian Barnes (2011), all published by Bloomsbury. His monograph The Making of London (2011) traces the representation of London in contemporary ... Read more
Reviews for British Fictions of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade (Continuum Literary Studies)
Nicely provocative.
Times Literary Supplement
[A] wide-ranging compendium that puts the novel at the centre of a culture ... Groes’s study is very timely, and should be attended to in current debates about the periodization of the recent literary past, and of the constitution of the contemporary.
Review of English Studies
The book represents an important ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
[A] wide-ranging compendium that puts the novel at the centre of a culture ... Groes’s study is very timely, and should be attended to in current debates about the periodization of the recent literary past, and of the constitution of the contemporary.
Review of English Studies
The book represents an important ... Read more