Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

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.

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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

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.

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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

by Alan Sinfield
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

by Alan Sinfield

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441185594
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 03/15/2007
Series: Classic Criticism
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 448
File size: 761 KB

About the Author

Alan Sinfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on notes
A new introduction - Ideology and Commitment:  A Personal Account
Foreword to the Second Edition
The Politics and Cultures of discord (1997)
1. Introduction
2. War stories
3. Literature and cultural production
4. Class/culture/welfare
5. Queers, treachery and the literary establishment
6. Freedom and the Cold War
7. Cultural plunder and the savage within
8. Making a scene
9. Reinventing Modernism
10. Women writing: Sylvia Plath
11. The rise of Left-culturism
12. Intellectuals and workers
13. The ways we live now
List of books and articles cited
Indexes
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