Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background 1960 to 1990

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This engaging book sets English literature since 1960 in its political and cultural context. From the end of empire in the sixties, through the attempts in the 1970s to maintain a "common culture" through education, good literature, and state subsidies for the Arts, to the 1980s when there was a shift toward the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of cultures, this was a period of considerable change and development. Waugh looks at the effects of the fragmentation of English culture and examines the new and varied ...

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1995 Paperback 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.7 cm. Condition exlibrary, a little underlining on a few pages near the back, page edges going brown. Isbn 0-19-289226-6, 0192892266. English ... Literature and Its Background, 1960-90 (OPUS). This study sets the period of literature between 1960 and 1990 in its political and cultural context. From the end of Empire in the 1960s, through the attempts in the 1970s to maintain a "common culture" through education, good literature, and state subsidies for the Arts, to the 1980s when there was a shift towards the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of cultures, this was a period of considerable change and development. Patricia Waugh looks at the effects upon English literature of the fragmentation of English culture over this 30-year period, and examines the new and varied voices which grew up as a result of this proliferation of cultures. She makes reference to a wide variety of writers, including Tom Stoppard, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Doris Lessing and David Lodge amongst man Read more Show Less

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This engaging book sets English literature since 1960 in its political and cultural context. From the end of empire in the sixties, through the attempts in the 1970s to maintain a "common culture" through education, good literature, and state subsidies for the Arts, to the 1980s when there was a shift toward the acknowledgement of a multiplicity of cultures, this was a period of considerable change and development. Waugh looks at the effects of the fragmentation of English culture and examines the new and varied voices that grew up as a result of this proliferation of cultures.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780192892263
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 9/7/1995
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.06 (w) x 7.75 (h) x 0.67 (d)

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Patricia Waugh teaches in the School of English at Durham University.

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Table of Contents

1 Discontinuities: Politics, Crisis, and Change 1960-1990 1
2 Continuities: Culture and Change 1960-1990 22
3 Keeping our Metaphysics Warm: Sacred Impulses in a Secular Age 58
4 Planners, Politics, and Poets: Intellectual Culture and the Limits of Reason after 1960 107
5 Nation and New Identities 149
6 Post-Consensus Fictions 179
Conclusion 208
Notes 214
Appendix 218
Chronology 220
Further Reading 228
Index 235
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