Synopses & Reviews
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Synopsis
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsNote on notesA new introduction - Ideology and Commitment: A Personal AccountForeword to the Second EditionThe Politics and Cultures of discord (1997)1. Introduction2. War stories3. Literature and cultural production4. Class/culture/welfare5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment6. Freedom and the Cold War7. Cultural plunder and the savage within8. Making a scene9. Reinventing Modernism10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath11. The rise of Left-culturism12. Intellectuals and workers13. The ways we live nowList of books and articles citedIndexes