Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. 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, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.

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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. 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, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.

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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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Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. 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, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826477026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/23/2004
Series: Continuum Impacts , #35
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.89(d)

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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