The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

by Philip Tew (Editor), James Riley (Editor), Melanie Seddon (Editor)

Overview

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction?

The 1960s were the “swinging decade”: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers.
A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350011694
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/26/2018
Series:	The Decades Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the annual Hillingdon Literary Festival held at Brunel.

James Riley is Fellow and College Lecturer in English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Melanie Seddon is an independent researcher specialising in British post-war literature and culture. She was formerly based at the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in 20th-century literature.
Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies. His many publications as both author and editor include Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (co-edited with Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson) The 1980s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2014).
James Riley is Fellow and College Lecturer in English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Melanie Seddon is an independent researcher specialising in British post-war literature and culture. She was formerly based at the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in twentieth-century literature.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors

Surfing the Sixties: A Critical Introduction
Philip Tew (Brunel University, UK), James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK) and Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK)

1. Our Troubled Youth: A Literary History of the 1960s
Melanie Seddon (University of Portsmouth, UK)

2. The Housewife and the Single Girl as Archetypes in Satirical Novels of the 1960s
Joseph Darlington (University of Salford, UK)

3. British Women's Fiction of the 1960s
Tracey Hargreaves (University of Leeds, UK)

4. Certain Circles: Gay Fiction and Cultural Attitudes of the 1960s
Yvonne Salmon (University of Cambridge, UK)

5. Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British Writing
Graham Riach (University of Cambridge, UK)

6. The 1960s Existential Fiction of John Fowles
Michelle Phillips Buchberger (Miami University, USA)

7. Experimental British Fiction of the Sixties: Five Meta-modern Novelists
Philip Tew (Brunel University London, UK)

8. Inner Space Odyssey: Suburban Spaceman and the Cults of Catastrophe
James Reich (Santa Fe University of Art and Design, USA)

9. Terminal Data: J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and the Fiction of the Decade's End
James Riley (University of Cambridge, UK)

Timeline of Works
Timeline of National Events
Timeline of International Events
Biographies of Writers

Index